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First off, it depends how many seats short of an overall majority any particualr party is, if they are only a few short it will be the same old same old, the government will by turn either bribe, promise or blackmail the number of supporters needed from other parties or independants, if its not so close, the lib dem will hold the balance of power, whoever promises the most and gains them to their side will take the election.

However and here is where governments have fallen in the past they have to keep those other party members sweet for the life of the parliament, not too easy when it means that the Lib Dems will want proportional representation etc again brought to the fore.

Its a cyclic thing swings to the left swings to the right, then a hung parliament, it happens, the problem is that people forget the lessons from the past. e.g. thatcher was voted in with a huge majority following swings to both left and right and hung parliaments, because of the national debt and union problems that Labour had created, Tony Blair was voted in on a landslide because the Tories had lost the edge with sleaze run out of policies that appealed to voters, etc,

Look at labour now, sleazey, run out of policies etc. bankrupting the country again. If the tories do get in it had better come in with decent policies that benefit the country, otherwise it will be out before its ran its full term. If its a hung parliament nothing really will occur it will be a political stasis till the next leader with a clear and popular vision for the country steps up to the mark.