Conservative leader David Cameron is the new UK prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown.
Mr Cameron, 43, is in Downing Street after travelling to Buckingham Palace to formally accept the Queen’s request to form the next government.
He said he aimed to form a “proper and full coalition” with the Lib Dems to provide “strong, stable government”.
His party won the most seats in the UK general election last week, but not an overall majority.
In a speech at Downing Street, Mr Cameron said he and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg would “put aside party differences and work hard for the common good and the national interest”.
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It’s “sorta” like choosing between oranges and oranges but anything that gets rid of Brown is a step in the right direction. Cameron needs to pay close attention to Harper now.
I would imagine there are a lot of thankful personnel in the British Armed Forces.
mid island mike
I’ve spent a couple of weeks wondering why another election in another foreign country has sparked such interest and arguing in the partisan political blogosphere — I almost get the idea that people either think:
[a] the Brits give a tinkers damn what Canadians think, or that
[b] the discussion is gonna change minds at home.
…… but that would just be silly, so I remain confused.
Obviously you are confused Stage ole boy you are on the left of the political spectrum. The fact of the matter is that with our interconnectedness politics in back waters like Greece effect us. Britain even more so. Now we on the right want everyone to succeed and we know that voting left is not the route to success so we are going to be interested and want to discuss the goings on in a foreign land even Britain.
Now we on the right want everyone to succeed
(don’t even have to log onto cracked.com this morning)
As evidenced by what – the southern strategy, attempted repeal of all human rights laws or the campaign to destroy every government bootstrap known to man?
@Joe: The partisan right wants the right to succeed, the partisan left wants the left to succeed, and all the Canadian discussion and fighting and echo chamber back slapping I’ve seen at both ends of the political spectrum since this started matter not as much as a fart in a hurricane to the Brits (or the Americans in their last election) in their decision making process does it?
The influence of the Canadian blogosphere in this is absolutely, 100%, squat….. zilch….., nada….. -0-….. the big fat goose egg.
Let me put forward the theory that the vast majority of what passes for “discussion” on this is really nothing more than a convenient excuse for Canadian political partisans to use a foreign election to try and score ideological points for the home team.