Worsfold's Wisdom: The nonsense spoken about hung parliaments

Talking about hung parliaments is all the rage at the moment. What a shame that so much of what is said is nonsense.

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Talking about hung parliaments is all the rage on the electoral merry-go-round at the moment. What a shame that so much of what is said is nonsense.

I find particularly bizarre the assertion that we need a single party government to tackle the dire economic problems the country faces. We only have to look across at Europe to Greece to see how well a single party government has coped with the financial storms of recent recent years. While looking across Europe, you might ponder how well Germany has done since the war and how rarely it has ever had a single party government. I could go on and those fearful of a parliament where the political parties might actually have to talk to each other can equally cite countries where they h...

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