Hung parliament

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Can anyone please explain to me what a hung parliament will mean?

I know it's when it's a draw between two parties.
I think it is anyway.

Is it likely to between labour and tories?

What would happen if that was the case?

I think it means that no party has won with a majority. Boris Johnson would then be allowed to form a coalition government with another party to make up a majority. He would never form a coalition with Labour as they are enemies so it would likely be with The Brexit Party or another lesser known party. I’m not sure Lib Dem, SNP or Green would agree to team up with him.

The biggest party gets first chance of forming a coalition government with other parties. Unlikely anyone will work with the Tories (although I bet the DUP will the stupid enough). If they can't form a government Labour party gets the chance to team up with other parties to form a coalition government.

I'm really hoping for a hung parliament that might decapitate the extremists leadership of both main parties and we can move back towards more normal (boring) politics.

It won’t be brexit party coalition. They have no MPs.

There are about 650 seats in parliament. I think 326 is the magic number to get a party over the line and have a majority. This means they can get their policies through (assuming all their MPs vote along the party line) and the cant be outvoted by the other parties.

I foresee it will be the DUP. And they will no go quietly with Brexit as it stands.

There are 650 parliamentary seats.

The parliament is 'hung' if there is no overall majority i.e. more than half of the seats, the smallest majority of two seats would be 326 (leaving the opposition with 324).

The bigger the majority, the better the chances of getting legislation and laws passed i.e. actually functioning as a government.

A government can be formed by parties allying together in the case of a hung parliament - for example if Labour had 250 seats and the lib Dems 100 and the conservatives 300. The largest party generally gets first dibs on forming a coalition government, but it could in theory be formed by all of the smaller parties banding together.

If a majority government cannot be formed, the queen may accept a minority government, usually once all other options are exhausted.

The problem UK parliament has had is that Brexit has divided people in their own parties, resulting in some MPs voting against their principles to align to their party, and some voting against their party to align with their principles. Typically MPs are willing to compromise to support the party line on less controversial matters so even a small majority is enough to function.

One of the current falsehoods is that a conservative majority will get Brexit done, I suspect there'll still be opposition from within the party, and unless they have a humongous majority (100+ seats) we'll continue dithering for months if not years.

If they can't form a government Labour party gets the chance to team up with other parties to form a coalition government.

Is there a time limit on how long the Tories could spend trying to form a coalition before it moved onto labour having a chance ?

Hung parliament will probably mean a coalition of Labour/Lib Dems/SNP. If that’s your idea of a dream scenario? Better fasten your seatbelt. You’re in for a bumpy night

Fuck no.

Labour and SNP.

I can't even contemplate it

The party with the largest number of seats basically gets a couple of weeks to try and form a government and agree a queens speech. At the same time the opposition will be having lots of behind the scenes conversations to try and gain alliances. Should the largest party not have their queens speech voted for, the opposition gets a go.

Hung Parliament, will mean years more of indecision and a dysfunctional Parliament, with no process on Brexit one way or another.

There are three basic outcomes that can come from a hung parliament:

1. Two or more parties form a coalition and go into government together. This is what happened in 2010 when the Conservatives and Lib Dems formed a coalition.

2. The party with the most seats can go into government and instead of forming a coalition they can enter into what's known as a "confidence and supply agreement" with one or more smaller parties. This means the smaller parties don't go into government, but they do agree to back the government on key votes like the budget. This is what happened between the Conservatives and the DUP in 2017.

3. The largest party can from a government without any alliances and try to govern as a minority (hence this called a 'minority government'). Minority governments are not very stable, because parliament can simply keep voting down government legislation that they don't like. Usually this leads to another election (for instance, in 1974 there were two elections in the same year because the first election lead to a minority government).

Hung parliament would in all likelihood mean a Labour / SNP coalition as the SNP comfortably have the third largest number of MPs.

Not worth worrying about now. Looks like a Con majority.

Yep.

Don't know what to think about it to be honest