Brown Monday
So it was ‘Brown Monday’, as The Sun declared yesterday.
It was thought that the markets would crash and the pound would plunge as ‘squatter Brown’ dug in at Number 10.
Ironically, for the Murdoch tabloid, the opposite happened.
The markets failed to plunge and it was only a ‘Brown Monday’ as Gordon finally decided to stand aside placing the Con/Lib Dem negotiations in turmoil.
Conservatives can only watch on amid rumours that Lib Dem MPs will not accept Conservative policies as they would prefer Labour as long as one key obstacle goes – and now that is going to happen.
Perhaps another sticking point was the Tories only promising a referendum on the AV voting system – it is too much like first past the post and would do little to boost Lib Dem seat numbers.
Labour, on the other hand, are apparently offering AV and a referendum on proportional representation.
Goodness knows what the Lib Dems decide but the numbers still favour David Cameron.
A safe bet might be that we will be going back to the polls inside the next couple of years – whatever system we use!
