May Ninth

The latest news to come out of the U.K. shows that Gordon Brown is stepping down from his post. yesterday he announced that he would resign by September. This comes out as word leaked out that the Libs were in talks with the Conservatives, which stalled due to the inability to find common ground on key issues. Meantime, Nick Clegg has been attempting to open talks with Labour, on the very likely condition that Brown stays down. So which way will it go? Even if it happens that Labour and Libs join together, they will still be 11 seats short, which means a relience on the defection of some tories or third party groups. Again, we may see major concessions in order to pullo ut a working government. At the time of this writing, the tories are offering a deal on voting reform.