{"id":5470,"date":"2010-05-07T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:30:57","slug":"brit-elections-stalmated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/07\/brit-elections-stalmated\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit elections stalemated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5471\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/British-Parliament-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"British Parliament\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/British-Parliament-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/British-Parliament.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>And the winner is &#8230; no one.\u00a0 The most tightly contested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/\">British Parliamentary<\/a> election in a generation has ended in the first <a title=\"stalemate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/08\/world\/europe\/08britain.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">stalemate<\/a> since 1974, with no party winning an outright majority of seats that would enable it to choose a prime minister and form a ruling government.\u00a0 Frantic efforts\u00a0are being made to shape some sort of coalition among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeeurope.com\/\">Conservative<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurolabour.org.uk\/\">Labour<\/a>, and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/home.aspx\"> Liberal Democrat<\/a> parties &#8212; which finished in that order.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective<\/em>&#8221; and who was in England to observe the election, says the results aren&#8217;t good for the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLabour lost heavily, the Conservatives failed to win with every possible advantage, and the Liberal Democrats are dismayed their campaign success didn&#8217;t translate into votes or seats. <\/em><em>Britain loses as there is no stable majority to back a government making tough economic choices.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the winner is &#8230; no one.\u00a0 The most tightly contested British Parliamentary election in a generation has ended in the first stalemate since 1974, with no party winning an outright majority of seats that would enable it to choose a prime minister and form a ruling government.\u00a0 Frantic efforts\u00a0are being made to shape some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2634,1101,2729,2730,1102,2858,2845,2728,2779,2726,2778],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7756,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}