One of the organisers of the protest had addressed the crowd, numbering about 1,000, saying they call on Nick Clegg or a member of his team to come out and accept a petition, signed by thousands, calling for voting reform. And then police wanted them to move on from the square.
With placards saying “fair votes now”, many wearing purple – the traditional colour of campaigns for the suffrage who throughout the years have struggled to deepen democracy, have unexpectedly arrived outside the venue for the Lib Dem meeting. Their loud chanting could possibly be heard inside the Lib Dem meeting.
They shout “we want to see Nick” which come out and took the signed petitions while addressed the Proportional Representation demo.
This is without doubt the first Proportional Representation demo of many if there is not change.
One of the most closely fought elections in decades has yielded no clear winner, and with no party strong enough to form a majority government doubt looms over who will be the next prime minister.
With 100 percent of votes counted in the U.K. general election, the Conservative Party has emerged as the biggest party, with over 306 seats (probably 307), Labour 258 & Lib Dem 57, however they Mr Cameron group (Conservatives) are short of an overall majority. The ruling Labour Party sadly has suffered its biggest defeat in decades, and the Liberals have failed to benefit from “Cleggmania” (even my partner voted for him). Now Gordon Brown seems determined to cling to power in a hung parliament, and will try to form a coalition government with the Liberals. This would be disastrous for Britain, and would be an insult to parliamentary democracy.
Is late for Brown, and if he stays on as prime minister, the consequences for Britain will be dire — a sharp fall in markets, a decline in prestige on the world stage, and political paralysis in the face of a mounting economic crisis. His mandate never been popular, and will be a short-lived government destined to be a failure.
He should have resigned before the elections to give chance to another generation to carry on with the Labour project, some of us were waiting to endorse the likes of the Miliband brothers to name few, that could have safe us.
My view is that private conversations should remain private however lets be honest, Gordon Brown was expressing what millions of us thought of her when we saw him chatting with that lady on TV.
The truth is that this woman very likely is a bigot. It’s just that the parameters of what that means have shifted over the past two decades.
Brown’s frustration and subsequent apologise was a result the Labour spin doctors’ failure not to manage his encounter, at what he imagined would be an event that would be carefully staged entirely for the benefit of the press and the cameras.
But the most paradojic is that the mic caught him out was placed by Rupert Murdoch oops sorry, Sky News who has made no secret of his empire’s (money included) support for David Cameron.
What would be nice is if the people of this country decided the election result in a true example of democracy, instead of all these outside forces, special interests and lobbying groups influencing opinions through calculated use of psychological and other questionable tactics.
Apple has finally Opera mini browser on its iPhones opening, this is without a doubt a new era for Iphone & iPod Touch users.
Currently Apple has many browsers on its App Store, but Opera has become the first rival to get access to iPhone.
On March 23, Opera applied to run on the iPhones on March 23. Now, the approval has arrived & Opera Mini Web browser is available to download on App Store.
According to the analysts, the decision was difficult for Apple.
Opera use a pwerfull servers to compress data by up to 90% before sending it to your iPhone, so pag-loads are lightning fast.
Opera claims that up to six times faster download speeds than Apple’s own browser (but i haven’t test that claim)