the electorate have shown that they don't care for gordon brown. they've shown that they are not entirely persuaded by the kind of doe-eyed chat up lines of the center party candidate nick chraing, the leader of the liberal democrats but they are still a little cool about david cameron and he's got, i think, some important battles to win in wing the confidence of the electorate. but there's no question he is by far, he leads by far the largest party in the house of commons now. no question but that he should be prime minister and given the chance to try. >> martin walker, follow up on that but let's get into also the horse trading. david cameron and nick clague have talked today, we're told. what are cameron 's-- what are the prospects for the tories and liberal democrats to do a deal and come up with a coalition government. >> the real problem is that the british people didn't speak, they mumbled and they shuffled their feet and they couldn't really make a decision. and what's extraordinary is that gordon brown should have lost by a greater amount

all electoral systems have their flaws. and different runs are suitable for different companies and different times. at the moment i'm afraid it is very difficult to come down firmly on one side or the other. they all have snags. >> in his lecture when he was made professor of poetry. his preferred method, with that there could be no argument. that works. let's join jeremy. >> we're joined by jack who has just been elected in birmingham. and joins his wife in the house of commons. his wife being harriet harman. what do you think of this idea of some sort of accommodation between your party and the liberal democrats? >> well, the electorate have spoken. what they want is stable government. what they do not want is a conservative government. what's extraordinary about the results last night is that the big loser is the conservative party. we have been in power for 13 years. we've had the worst global economic crisis for 100 years. we've had the tories pouring ashcroft money into the marginals to try and buy seats. they were t

"la ventana esta cerrandose, es una ano electoral pero nosotros vamos a seguir presionando" de hecho, a raiz del intercambio de palabras de esta nina de 7 anos con la primera dama el miercoles pasado, los activistas aporvecharon para exponer otra preocupacion.... las deportaciones. americas voice dio a conocer este grafico denunciando el aumento de la practica en los ultimos dos anos.. sin embargo, las autoridades senalan que hasta el momento se ha deportado a algo mas de 82.000 criminales y que el aÑo pasado fueron 60.000 pasado ... el 37% de incremento. y 88.500 no-criminales frente a los casi 128.500 d el 2009... una disminucion del 31% aunque en un documento interno filtrado en marzo, se establece que la meta para este ano es de 310 mil deportaciones. "tu estas diciendo por un lado que tu no quieres discutir el asunto de la reforma migratoria porque no hay seguridad, pero lo que hemos estado viendo es otra vez, la intensificacion de esas medidas de seguirdad, se ven en las cifras, se ven en lo que esrta pasando a traves del pais."

it means an electorally-driven agenda.xico continues to muddle through politically and economically. you will not see dramatic, aggressive reforms passed. you are probably going to witness, unless something dramatic happens, the re- emergence, the resurrection of the pri as a party that is at the door effort only 12 years since mexico experienced a transition to electoral democracy. >> thank you. do you coincide or differ? where is mexico? >> i mostly coincide. i have a different approach. we have several mexicos. in mexico city, they have a different experience than different towns. it is totally different in different parts of the country. mexico is becoming a real federal country that each region is having a very distinct problems as a whole. this contrast gives me a pessimist/optimistic view of the country pretty pessimistic view is that while it is based on the news we have had in the past months of years around the wars on drugs, there are things happening that would be unbelievable just a few years back. city like m

hacen todo lo posible para atraer mayor nÚmero de electores.ostraremos como. >> al -158 personas murieron cuando el aviÓn donde viajaban cayÓ de la pista en bangalore, india. >> este es su noticiero univisiÓn de fin de semana. >> hola, ¿cÓmo estÁn? muy buenas noches y gracias por compartir con nosotros el sÁbado. >> las crÍticas y las culpas por el derrame petrolero en mÉxico siguen su curso. el presidente ha nombrado a alguien que tiene experiencias en enfrentar leyes ecolÓgicas esto al tiempo en que se cifran las esperanzas de que servirÁ para detonar el derrame. >> gracias, en efecto, mÁs los forzados trabajan para contener la fuga de petrÓleo que cumple ya mÁs de un mes y aunque se barajan muchas cifras es incierta la cantidad que se derrama de combustible dÍa a dÍa. segÚn el presidente obama se debe investigar referente a mi motivo que se trate de resolver el problema aunque muchos no estÁn de acuerdo con Él. >> el presidente barack obama reiterÓ este sÁbado que hará rendir cuentas a las compaÑÍas responsables por el desastre ocasionado en

the electoral commission says there will be a thorough review, and no clear picture yet. >> she denied people are trying to make her change names. it was no. 11 on the tory's target list, but it was held by david heath. that is the result. we will leave it at that. have a look at high peak. conservative gains and the swing of 6.5% from labour. andrew bellingham -- bingham, the near mp. -- new mp. and he is the second figure from the right. he ran against the liberal democrats. he has a majority of 534. 12 target for the tories. >> being the returning officer of the easily constituency for the parliamentary election on thursday, the sixth of may, 2010, give notice that the number of votes recorded for each candidate is as follows -- dominic, the labor party candidate, 5153. [applause] cinch -- finch, 1933. [applause] hume, 24,966. [applause] hutchins, maria, the conservative party candidate, 21,102. [applause] lowe, national liberty party, the predicament independence, democracy, 93. attorney stephen, the english democrat, but in england first, 249 -- tony stephen, the english democrat,

todo lo posible por atraer el mayor numero de electores.onocer lo que pasa en su pÍs.el sheriff de san francisco quiere impedir que la ciudad participe en un programa federal que envia las huellas digitales de los detenidos al servicio de inmigracion...fuertes vientos y fallas estructurales hicieron que un puente en rusia se balanceara como un columpio. ante un inminente colapso las autoridades los clausuraron.mas esta tarde colapso las autoridades los clausuraron.mas esta tarde d >> el cantante mexicano paco nos abriÓ la puerta de su rancho para hablar de un proyecto que ayudarÁ a niÑos autistas y desde monterrey elizabeth tiene todos los detalles. >> este es el rancho de paco, y en sus caballerizas tiene sus bienes mÁs preciados ahora los compartirÁ con niÑos autistas para un drama especial de equinoterapia. >> preparados para dar el servicio, yo pongo los caballos y otra gente va a poner el curso porque obviamente tiene que ser estudiado. >> la meta es que el programa arranque antes de que finalice el aÑo. >> son 40 los caballos, espero

all along the way she is very reluctant about electoral politics. i mean, she came from a family and from a city where the view of electoral politics is, you know, the daly. the great triumph of harold washington. they were excited on that in the community but very wary of electoral politics. and the whole idea of running for state senate -- by the way, she was right. it gets to the state senate, the black caucus can't stand him. the work is boring. he's bored. he finds it trivial. he has a very low boredom threshold which speaks to his's go and an intellect and an ego. he runs for congress and he gets creamed and she goes enough is enough. we can do well and do good at the same time. we've got all these loans. enough is enough. he wins the senate seat. >> she's committed to community service as he is. >> but in a different way. she's very committed to community service and played that out as the professional woman. but electoral politics i think was something that she came to far, far less willingly. and obama himself pursued it really hard. >> wha

>> he's popular but not able to translate into electoral votes. we have seen that with new jersey, pennsylvania and virginia. inviting him to come to kentucky they play expect is him to once again waste more capital. and paul has two things. this issue we're going to talk about hair, puts -- makes things messy foree for, for paul and for all of the republicans who want to make obama look bad. there's a sympathy factor kicking in when you start challenging whether, whether the civil rights act was good thing and suddenly the first african-american president on the ground who wants to get involved in that conversation. chris: before that, that's a good piece for the second half of the show. we'll talk about your book. president obama talk to you about his surprise about how the big spending of his first year, all of the stuff he did, it stirred people up. here's what he told you. it wasn't that i thought my political outreach would yachtly stop partisan politician, i thought that at least for the first creer, there would be nd didn't see that happen

she came from a family where the view of electoral politics is the daily. greg triumph of the harold washington were excited by that everybody was in the community but very weary of electoral politics and the idea of running for the senate and by the way it gets to this state senate and the black caucus can't stand him. the work is boring, he's bored, he finds it trivial, he has a low boredom threshold which also speaks to a certain ego as well as intellect and then he runs for congress and gets the great and says enough is enough. we can do well and good at the same time enough is enough and he just has to give it one more shot and he wins the seat. >> she is as committed as he is the. >> but in a different way. she's very committed to community service and please that held as a professional woman at the university chicago and the hospital and all the rest. but electoral politics i think was something she came to far less willing to lead and obama so far. sprick what explains his restlessness? >> welcome again, i want to be careful of the psychoanalytical

results we are seeing, which i think are not good for mexico's electoral, political prospects in the future. >> thank you, denise. we're at 10:30 but we'll take a couple more minutes to wrap up, david and shannon. so, david... >> well, i'll take on the felipe calderon legacy issue. for one thing i totally, the great thing is though she disagrees with me i agree with most of what denise has to say. i don't know how that works, but... i completely agree that it depends very much on what happens. there is still' chance that the they could begin and, something could cripple him in some significant way, but it the education pri's to lose in twoec2012 and in the last two election they couldn't get along and that is largely why they lost, perhaps more so than we might like to believe. so assuming the prism does win, i think we may look back and see president felipe calderon as the man who took mexico to war against itself and lost. and as a result, lost the presidency, who neglected his initial promises when he took office, to be the jobs president, but, who instead became the war on drugs

i do think the electorate has this interesting instinct of revenge. they are turning out incumbents that were here 20-30 years, that seniority andof clout. it is being held against them. they're almost doing it apologetically. they are saying it, it is time for somebody new. host: the president this past weekend, a fund raiser in buffalo, new york, and then traveled into new york city for a fund-raiser and said this about the upcoming midterm elections and the republican party. >> we have our mops and brooms out. we are cleaning stuff up. hold the broom better, is what they're saying. don't tell me how to mop. pick up a mop. do some work on behalf of the american people to solve some of these problems. [applause] strategywasn't their from day one. i am not making this up. i am not making this up. this is public record. they have said in interview, we made a political decision. if we did not do anything, we the otherwell, maybe side would take the blame. we did our best to gum up the rks, to say no to everything. after they drove the car into the ditch

bulk of the electoral votes.n 56% of the electoral votes on 39% said you truly was a sectional president obviously. i did a little calculation and figured in the 1864 election if you put back in the 11 states that seceded and counted the eligible voters and ran in the 1864 election he still would have lost getting only 47%. he was a minority candidate president which resulted of course, of the secession in. the hatred brand so high there were eight plots that we know of that we can document to either kill or remove 40 killed or kidnapped or captured. >> he was 56 years old five weeks into his second administration had already opted for limited black suffrage and had even spoken about the possibility of female suffrage. he had some pretty big ideas in terms of civil rights and as a result became a target for many people not just john wilkes booth. he was one month shy of the 27 per day and at the top of his game. matinee idol led greatest star with no enemy and was well liked, generous, outgoing, h elpful when int

he won 56% of the electoral votes. 39% of the populace. he was a sectional president obviously. i did a little calculation. >> guest: 64 election. if you put in 11 states that seceded and counted the eligible voters and ran them in the 1860's for election lincoln would still have lost the 1860's for election only getting 70% of the electoral vote. he was a minority candidate president which resulted of course in secession and civil war. the hague ran so high you think the rancor today is something, it ran so high there are eight plotzed that window of to either kill or remove abraham lincoln from office. four to kill and four to kidnap or capture. at the time of his assassination lincoln was 56 years old, five weeks into his second administration. have already opted for ltd. black suffrage and had even spoken about the possibility of female suffrage before the end of the civil war. he had some pretty big ideas in terms of civil-rights and advancing the nation and as a result became a target not just for john wilkes booth but for 90 people. john wilkes booth bose one month shy of

it means an electorally driven agenda. it means mexico continues to muddle through politically and economically. you are not going to see dramatic, aggressive reforms passed, and you are probably going to witness, unless something dramatic happens, the reemergence, the red-- resurrection of the pri, the party at the door of blows the most after only 12 years since mexico experienced the transition to democracy. >> thank you today's. juan, where do you coincide and where do you differ? >> i mostly-- i would like to have a different approach. we now have several mexico's. the experience of someone who lives in mexico city, it is very different than the experience that other people are having. is how we experience against organized crime. it is totally different, and mexico is becoming a real federal country that, each region is having very distinct problems as a whole. these contracts are an optimistic view of the country. the pessimist view is based on the news we have had in the last months and years around the war on drug

the liberal democrats, a big electoral reform deal. people in now realized that electoral reform is not just inevitable but is one of the ways of reconnecting politics. the political parties haveqç"hr members now. this is a long-term development that has happened in most of the democratic companies. pi-xemkm>> i think that is thet outcome for the labour party, to struggle along now with the coalition. go to the polls in a year with the new leader and come back into power. next on our website, you can get all the latest whispers from westminster. coming up, welcome to westminster. i will be meeting some of the new members of parliament. he wanted a hung parliament, and now he has got it. liberal democrat and conservative negotiators are meeting for talks at the cabinet office. for negotiators8xu"r the tories arrived just before 8:00 a.m.. for the liberal democrats, there is a four-man team. what is the latest? >> they have been meeting for half an hour. they are locked in a room with civil servants facilitating. previous discussions h

the 1912 election you have four parties that split up and the electorate and -- 6% of electorate and- 6% of vote. [talking over each other] >> it was significant even then. the democratic party, up for grabs. this will not be a bible party long run, we do not bring these into the republican party. to what degree do they bring the socialist party, it broke the back of to bring them as subsumed in the democratic party? >> it does not begin until the new deal. that will appeal to some of the labor unions but that doesn't really -- that is not a big part of wilson's presidency or the democratic party. that really reinforces the turn away movement. was it in 1918 that the sedition act was passed during world war i which made it illegal to speak against the war and being sentenced to ten years in jail, and interesting fact about progressivism, who pardoned -- a good trivia question. warren g. harding. the conservative republican in the name of civil liberties and natural rights pardons a socialist who was prosecuted by progressive tests. i have a habit of looking at facts, there is a legal

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the electorate did not give any party a majority.sh they had, and every party wishes to have more than 326 impis' -- mp's. we are now in negotiations and we respect their priorities. i hope we can provide what they need, which is a stable government. if the liberal democrats choose to go into an arrangement with labour, it is an unstable arrangement. if they choose to go in with labour, we do not know who the prime minister at the end of that process would be. we do know it is -- if they all went through a television debate and the public had a chance, we know under labor costs proposal we could end up with someone as prime minister whom nobody expects to be in that position. >> you are generous enough yesterday and the day before to say you would give up your cabinet post in favor of a liberal democrat. do you feel as generous of the idea that david cameron would bring in right-wingers, ian duncan smith, and davis to a cabinet? what is your reaction? >> it is up to david, and it is a team effort in the conservative party. one of the

and second, the 1996 elections indicate pretty strongly that there were no, or few, electoral costs for the people during that period who ran as part of the 1994 group wanting to cut government. so it does indicate both with reagan's general popular in the 94th -- 96 result, that it's possible to do so as a winning political strategy. now, the book talks quite a bit toward the end about the two bush administration, or the second bush administration, the george w. bush administration. in my view, the effort to limit government i think i differ a bit here with the congressman, really begin to end in the summer of 1997. republicans in congress and elsewhere began, stopped believing that it was a winning political strategy to run on cutting back the federal government. and so they started looking for other alternatives. and during that period a number of evangelical conservative christians have been entering the republican party and affiliate with the republican party in increasing numbers but selecting one idea was that you can build a majority on that group. that led, i believe, in part t

mexico has an electoral democracy that amounts seto thi. it has to be more accountable.deron has made this agenda his. these reforms and a lame duck presidency house of left them zero -- have left them zero chance of being enacted. while the president is to be commended for the reformist basie is adopting, it is pretty clear that the reforms will not be passed in the remainder of his administration. they would need the support of the pri. today they have a majority with the green party. it could enacted these reforms on its own without even the support of the left. that will not be the case because of the interest that the coalition is descending. they believe it is not have to modernize itself or to enact these reforms in order to come back into power. it is enough to position itself as the party of experience, security, continuity. they continue to advocate or prop up the patronage driven machine that is leading to the electoral home victories. what does this mean for mexico? it means and a naturally driven and putin de. it means mexico continues to muddle through. you

i had a huge respect for the electorate. they want a member of parliament that will have a strong voice for them and make sure that we work for them. >> kemi look at the question of what moral legitimacy [unintelligible] we now have learned that so far 2 million fewer people have voted for your party and voted for the conservatives. >> these discussions -- i've not seen many of the national results. i think they are buried in the way they are coming through. there is no one singular pattern. it has to be when all the results are in m.a.c. what the resolution is. >> we have a declaration coming up any moment now in a saucer for labour is the defending. >> conservative party candidates, 17,200 is 51. [cheers] brenam, independent, 135. vanessa, u.k. independent, 551. marlene, liberal democrat, 7557. miles, green party, 696. james, british nationals, 432. labourter, labo l party, 20,000 -- [cheers] labour >> the attempt to take it was halfway up. >> 20,810. i declare that annie slaughter is duly elected to serve. >> they had gre

i do think the electorate has this interesting instinct of revenge. they are turning out incumbents that were here 20-30 years, that seniority andof clout. it is being held against them. they're almost doing it apologetically. they are saying it, it is time for somebody new. host: the president this past weekend, a fund raiser in buffalo, new york, and then traveled into new york city for a fund-raiser and said this about the upcoming midterm elections and the republican party. >> we have our mops and brooms out. we are cleaning stuff up. hold the broom better, is what they're saying. don't tell me how to mop. pick up a mop. do some work on behalf of the american people to solve some of these problems. [applause] strategywasn't their from day one. i am not making this up. i am not making this up. this is public record. they have said in interview, we made a political decision. if we did not do anything, we the otherwell, maybe side would take the blame. we did our best to gum up the works, to say no to everything. after they drove the car into the dit

between 10 and 20% of the lesson, and in germany electoral their tombstone every week and the vote. assess, the german occupation wasn't so bad. pro-nazi party, last sunday cut 16% in the elections. so the interesting thing is, these are three forces, western parliamentary democracy, german national socialism, communism -- communism has practically disappeared. western parliamentary democracy has its own troubles, but there it is. but they are, this is the legacy of the war. there are, as i told you, in austria for example, a party which has campaigned on different levels, but one of them being that the second world war and the german occupation of austria was not so bad. its leaders openly called winston churchill a war criminal. six years ago got 20% of the national vote. i don't think the great danger of these people will ever get to power, but this is interesting. this is something very significant. that this exists. now, it does not hardly exist within our country, you know. no, but in this country, too, there is a considerable number of people, mostly republicans, who soon aft

when people are hurting, the electorate is volatile and that means that people will want to see change. the same passion for change that animated people for president obama, people still look for as they go to the booth. we got a message about being able to deliver change. if you want to continue to see change, you have to put people in who are willing to do some heavy lifting to bring change about. >> let's take a look at the most recent special election from last night. the democratic winner in pennsylvania opposed health-care reform. he is pro-life and pro-begun. -- and pro-gun. >> one of the signature issues in the rise was the issue of health reform. mark critz has said he might cut -- might not have voted for the bill originally. there is a sharp difference of in the candidates on this issue. mark critz said no. he said we need to make sure it is implemented well. the republicans really made that race a referendum on the president but also on whether repeal of health care reform would be a signature issue that could drive these elections for. in a district that was favorable to t

gains, electoral gains for his party.and he has not been -- he was not forceful enough in his first three years to push reforms that would have made the political system more representative, more accountable or that would have made the economic system much more competitive. so what is he trying to do now? i think eb at the midterms, in the past midterms as a wake-up call. and now you see him trying to push forward a series of reforms that he didn't advocate during his first three years. he's trying to position himself as a reformist i.t. wasn't in his first three years. in order to present a reformist face to the elect to, while at the same time trying to smoke out the pri or put the pri into a corner where it has to adopt a public position on reforms that the president is advocating such as reelection citizen candidacies and anti-monopoly agenda. i say that these reforms necessary, important and many reforms i celebrate because they have been on the agenda of, you know, many democracy and citizen led groups for many year

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>> where do we start with how bad this looks for the electorate? what we have his exact what we would get after every general election. the parties have the manifestoes. you go behind closed doors. you have secret meetings. when it is offensive of democratic and transfer of. >> i agree. if you have hong parliaments, you have to have this horse trading. it is a very bad system. >> today began a long time ago in which the news of the eu and the imf is putting together a trillion dollars global rescue package to stock increased costs meltdown from affecting the euro zone -- to stop greece's meltdown from affecting the euro zone. i am joined by paul mason to take as to what has been happening today and the impact of the resignation to reagan >> when gordon brown made a statement, and sterling slid 1/7 against the dollar. -- 1 cent against the dollar. it barely moved. people expected to go-tomorrow. they do not like a political instability. also, von credit rating agencies moved against the increase. h'm they have been waiting to see what is coming out

. >> he picks the justices on how they affect the electoral process. >> he says his skin is thicker thanhinoceros. >> it does not hurt me. i am in a tough line of work and i'm used to being challenged. >> reporter: when specter quit the g.o.p. to run for senate as a democrat, he shot to the top of the poll last year and many democrats said the nomination was his to lose. it looks that he may in fact do that come tuesday. last year, specter quit the g.o.p. come tuesday, the democrats may quit him. bret? >> shannon: it will be a good one on tuesday, carl. glad you're there. well, sarah palin picked her candidate in the south carolina governor's race. the former alaska governor is endorsing state representative hailey, the only woman in the contest. palin says women who she calls "mama grizzlies" will lead a national republican wave in november. get a look at the important senate races, join bret baier at 9:00 eastern time this sunday for first in a series of fox news specials titled "inside campaign 2010." >>> president obama pick to run custom and protection border agency may have immigra

in a time of economic anxiety, there is going to be electoral volatility. people are going to be mad, angry, and confused. the right strategy is to try to get action and do the heavy lifts that get the nation going again there are things that happen at some of the tea party rallies and signs that are unfortunate. let's just attribute it to a challenging economic time. the solution is good policy, good results. the charts that you have on your table that show significant job loss now turning to job increases. the stock market in the 6,000 and 7,000, they're volatile around 11,000. g.d.p. shrinking to g.d.p. growing. as we continue to demonstrate that and further that trend, i think americans will feel like they are getting the kind of country they want back of long-term prosperity. >> you made reference earlier to democratic success in special elections going back to new york 23. why do democrats able to win special elections while democratic governors and senators seem to lose? >> i wouldn't say always. we had an interesting 2009. we won six special electio

i feel given the results, -- about electoral representation. i feel, given the results, that this was the right thing. i want to demonstrate that the conservative party is willing to go the extra mile to try and build this coalition. we will have that legislation and it will include a referendum clause. there will be a referendum. there'll be a campaign in which people can campaign freely. it is a very important part of building the trust between our parties to build the coalition for the good of the country. >> as far as the five-year parliament, is that an aspiration or will that be fixed in early legislation? given the state, range, and spectrum that are parties represent, -- that your parties represent, will you be more tolerant of dissent then you would normally be or are you demanding total loyalty to the cause? will you be encouraging your candidates to campaign against each other? each other?

it depends very much on how the very specific and ideosyncratic electoral arithmetic of the u.k.ks out. you could have a situation in which labor comes third in the votes and still is the largest party in the house. in that case, the normal rule is if labor becomes the largest party in the house, gordon brown is entitled to stay prime minister and try and see if anybody will support him. that probably won't work. in that case, then there will be a breakdown and we don't know how exactly it will result. presumably mr. cameron will be asked if he can form a government. he would have to decide whether he would be a minority government with some agreement with other parties, mainly the liberal democrats, i assume on a program or actually try and create a true coalition which is a very rare event in political politics because it's such a complicated thing to do. the simple truth is we don't know what would happen, we don't know how it would play economically although so far the markets have been very relaxed almost britain as a safe haven despite our huge deficit, although it might tr

jonathan promised to work for peace and electoral reform. one challenge will be stabilizing the niger delta. militants there have repeatedly disrupted oil production. russian special forces today freed an oil tanker hijacked by somali pirates in the indian ocean. the vessel named "moscow university" had been seized on wednesday, along with 23 russian crew members. it carried a cargo worth $52 million. russian forces killed one of the pirates in the rescue operation. ten more were captured. in india, the only surviving gunman from the attacks on mumbai in 2008 was sentenced to be hanged. mohammed ajmal kasab is the pakistani man caught on camera storming a train station during the mumbai assault. 166 people died in the three-day siege. luxury hotels, a train station, and a jewish center were the targets. kasab can still appeal his sentence and apply for clemency. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. but for now, back to judy. >>

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clegg wants reform of the british electoral system.he liberal democrats want an overhaul of the system that his constituency base, and has given them a very low level of representation in the house of commons for many years given their share of the national vote. in this election, the share of the vote is about 23%. because of the nature of the system, the year ending up with less than 10% of the seats in the house of commons. they want reform. that'll be the critical issue of negotiation between mr. cameron and mr. clegg. guest: is there a chance that the brits could go to a national set like that, rather than by constituency? guest: the biggest chance of it happening now than there has been for many years. there's a growing awareness in the country that the old system, which was dominated by two parties and constituency based, no longer works in british politics. we no longer have a situation in the u.k. where politics is dominated by the center-left labour and the center right conservatives. you have seen an increasing fragmentation

as if the electorate is a party of yes. they said no to spending. we all agree the electorate is angry. they are not yelling e.p.s. for more of this, so what i would argue -- not yelling yes for more of this, so i would argue americans are saying no. stay on the line, if you would. piths, i want to show you from about a week ago from utah. mitt romney supporting bob bennett who lost in his bid to get the republican nomination. we'll just show the video. rebuilding requires going out and helping the parties. sominaody that he he worked ver hard. is that the version. if you look at 2012, it is going to be a contest of individuals whether or not that means this is a person that leads this country. 2012 is going to be about big things i think those are the big issues. i really tend to be bored with the whole endorsement game. one of these things where we keep score inside the beltway. the biggest challenge it is becoming a smaller party. the conservatives are making sgne that the republican party is making sure that they talk t

i note this is our second of electoral success this month. i have to say that there were times during the general election where i was a little concerned about your safe return to parliament, but i am glad to se that the mostly conservative-inclined voters of buckingham stuck with you. i hope that there will not be too much family strife if i welcome the fact that similarly inclined voters in st. james ward and the london borough of westminster did the same thing. my i also congratulate my friend the honorable member for louth and horncastle four becoming the father of the house. he first worked with a conservative prime minister in 1955 when he was personal assistant to anthony eden. famous for his put doms, he once said to me on one of our many trips to the northern lobby, you call yourself a modernizer but i think that is rubbish. as far i can see, you're just like harold and rab. his knowledge and experience of the house are unmatched and he is dearly valued. perhaps not everyone who is here today, those who have not sat through the past

>> i have stated very clearly my view about our electoral system and proportional representation i feel was right given a result, needed this -- given the need for strong and stable government to make important concessions that we should have referendum on the alternative but system did i want to demonstrate the conservative party would go the extra mile to try and build a coalition. we will have that legislation. it will include a referendum calls, and it will include alternative mode, and there will be a referendum. there will be a campaign in which people can campaign freely. but it is part of the very important part of building the trust between our two parties to build a coalition for the of our country. for watson. >> just on the five-year parliament is there an expiration or will that be fixed in early legislation? and given the spectrum that your party spoke to represent, will you both be more tolerant of dissent than you would normally be, or are demanding a central loyalty to the cause? and you mentioned the by- election. will you

the outcome has been delivered by the electorate.it is our responsibility now to make it work for the national good. i am sure that you will understand that this is all that i have to say at this stage today. thank you all very much. >> david cameron now. seated by members of the cabinet. >> the conservative party gained more seats than at any election for the last 80 years. i am incredibly proud. not only of the strong result that we achieved but of the strong and positive campaign that we fought. we campaigned for hope, not feared. and people responded to that, giving us two million more votes. we campaigned for change, not all of the same, and people responded to that, giving us a higher share of the vote then labour achieved in the last election when the one of majority. there are many great few conservative members of parliament will be coming to the house of commons, and i am very proud of this will be a new modern conservative party in parliament. i know it will make a huge difference to our politics. to all those conservative

that reform must include the electoral system. the liberal democrats have their ideas. we have our ideas. all seeds should be of equal size so that puts it have an equal value. other parties have constructive proposals to put forward as well. i believe we will be an all party committee. the negotiations would involve compromise. that is why we are working together in the national interest. no government will be in the national interest and messages of the biggest threat to our national interest. that is the deficit. we remain completely convinced that starting to do with the deficit this year is essential. this has been more than confirmed by recent events and other european countries, recent instability in the markets, in recent conversations that liptak with both the treasury and the bank of england. the national interest is clear. the world is looking to britain for decisive action. we will find further ways in which liberal democrats can be involved in making this happen the of left this country with terrible problems. an economic and financial crisis, deep social p

. >> what do you make of the breathlessness out there in the electorate and? the two-party -- you can argue that it was just 18 months ago that barack obama got elected by a fairly easy margin with an agenda and democrats retook the house and senate in last two elections and yet, here we are a short time later, with what looks like a lot of anti- incumbency sentiment. did the democrats overplay their hands or are we dealing with a population that just is never satisfied when the republicans are in, and what democrats and vice versa? >> i think all of the tea party movement is a reflection of the tough economic times we have been through. different views are the best way through these economic times. the steps that have been taken are improving the economy. jobs are coming back and it would be a mistake to go back that created the best to go -- to begin with. but with the the party, your finding it double-edged sword. the republicans hope to capitalize on the political energy of the tea party movement which is clearly there. on the other hand, the tea party mov

and they saw people actually more will to go try to take positions that might help them in the electoral prospects rather than standing up with the courage and the conviction of fighting for what was needed for them. they knew that washington had lost focus. i tell everyone it was a matter of trust. i hope to earn that trust from them. i didn't run simultaneously for my congressional job. i felt hi to begin to demonstrate, it wasn't about joe sestak and his job. i was about yours. that more than anything when i said about the establishment trying to regain their trust like in the navy. i captain of a ship would always walk around have captain calls and sit down and listen. they'll follow you if they trust you to do anything. that's what washington has to regain. >> schieffer: it's a very interesting point. i absolutely take your point. but some people say that the reason that washington doesn't work now is because in order to get to washington, you have to have to raise so much money. you have to sign off with so many interest groups, back home before you get there. once you get to washi