For readers outside the Britain, here’s a quick summary of the British general election campaign. Voting is on May 7 (tomorrow). For most of the last couple of hundred years, voting in Britain has boiled down to a choice between two parties. Since WW2, that choice has been between Labour and Conservative. Last election 2010, Conservatives were forced into a coalition with the centrist third party, the Liberal-Democrats, because no single party had enough votes for a majority in parliament. In this country, a general election means you vote for your local Member of Parliament who is 99% likely to a […]
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