Catching up

Holidays are great but for some reason whenever I leave the country I completely fail to keep up to date with developments. A bit careless considering that when I left England for Germany last week the whole leadership of the country was in question. I should perhaps have learnt my lesson when I went to Cyprus in September 2008 and returned home to find out that Lehman Brothers had been placed into administration and RBS were in a little spot of bother.

So now I'm back and I understand that we have this historic coalition government. David Cameron is PM with Nick Clegg as his deputy. I'm actually rather excited by this development. I'm all for new experiences so having 2 parties in control sounds like it could be quite interesting. I'm also excited because I've had a quick read through the Coalition Manifesto and it all seems to be incredibly promising. I realise that making these promises and keeping them are two very different things, but we're allowed to be optimistic. Cameron and Clegg strike me as men who are keen to do well, and in order to do well they will need to achieve what they have promised. If the Lib Dems do well, they could earn more support from the electorate, possibly to the extent that they would be a serious contender for a majority government in the future. I wonder if perhaps the Conservatives failing to achieve a majority this time around has put the willies up Cameron, so to speak, so he'll be working his socks off to increase the Tories' lead in future. Either way, I think the country will be the one to benefit, and that's never a bad thing.