Griffe Witte discusses #ConstitutionUK in his Washington Post article !

"Turnout in 2010 was less than two-thirds with 65.8% of registered voters turning out to vote. This year the election saw a whopping increase in turnout of 0.3 percentage points at 66.1%. That means that 15.7 million people (enough to fill Wembley Stadium more than 174 times) did not vote in 2015."

"Thursday’s election leaves the Anglo-Scottish Union on the brink. A combination of the first past the post system and the crystallisation of increasingly sharp attitudinal differences between England and Scotland has produced starkly divergent political systems which are now set to clash in the House of Commons..."

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"Under our Parliamentary system, the test for whether a Prime Minister can govern or not is whether he (or she) commands a majority in the House of Commons. Once it’s clear to the Prime Minister that he no longer does so, by convention he should resign."

" ... the ... post election arithmetic may just conceivably give an important role to the Northern Ireland electorate and their MPs in deciding who will occupy the Iron Throne in Downing Street. We cannot know which House they might back. But perhaps there are some hints..."

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"The SNP’s current electoral success therefore poses something of a dilemma. The more power it is able to exercise at Westminster, the less compelling becomes the argument for complete separation. Happily then for the SNP, by treating it like a pariah, the Unionist parties seem determined to make its case for it..." #GE2015

"... in this election it is the Conservatives who are most aggressively employing the constitution for party ends. Time will tell whether this helps the Party achieve its short-term goal of securing a return to No 10—but we will have to wait longer to see whether the tactic has a corrosive effect on the body politic."

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/…/who-forms-the-uk-government-in-th…/

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"The shifting character of an emergent English sense of identity, which has grown in the course of the last quarter century, suggests that the English have a growing desire for their politicians to speak more directly and unequivocally about England ..."