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I feel a let down, after voting lib dem. But that's politicians for you, you can't trust any of them.

Every single British voter should have known that this election would result in a hung parliament, as much as polls can never truly know anything for certain. Here in Canada, as a result of our version of a Hung Parliament, we had three elections in four years.

Few people support the idea of unelected leaders, what would have happened if Clegg had joined with Brown instead of the largest party. Not many want to admit that their best interests are served better by being watered down to work with the interests of others.

If you had wanted Clegg to stay out of everything, you'd have our many elections, which changed little, cost much, annoyed many, and often let the government get away with pushing their minority-share views, un-winnowed, be pushed through by finding a different party to support them on each vote, chastising the others by playing the public's disdain for another vote against the others.

The best you can hope for is for people to realize that only by listening to each other can you have success. Views are divided enough that majorities will occur far less often (look at the close elections in America for another example of such). Real change of opinion will now only take place by one of two methods. Either the polarized views will be watered down enough to find compromise, and in the less sharp and pointy versions of the compromise members of one group might finally be swayed to another. Or you take every dissenting view to the tip of a rapier, and by now the world is large and connected enough that you cannot defeat it all.