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It is both the main parties fault for not being totally inclusive as to the whole of the UK when in govt:
The Conservatives used Scotland as a testing ground for rotten policies like the poll tax.
Labour have for the last 30 years at least,taken Scotland for granted and let them down in govt:
Wales they look upon as something to be left aside for other days.

One party giving up on the South and believing the North will always see it through,without the North,it would be a lost party
The other, now in the main a party of the South,if there were few southern seats in England, that party would be a rump too.
Two extremes,entirely different needs that really rarely get addressed at all.

The 2 main parties are now reaping what they have sowed due to once winning power generally setting out to dismantle what the previous party did in power.
Always blaming each other even at the end of their own parliamentary periods..

When in fact right from 1979 to 2010,over 30 years of govt; between them, the Conservatives with 18 unbroken years of power and Labour with 13 years of unbroken power.
Neither had all the answers,neither did all the right and just things and now the voters have woken up to the probable fact neither ever will.

It really could be, that neither will ever get a free run with power again, this may well be the 3rd election in a row where the main parties get less than 70% of the votes cast between them.
Really in my view, losing any mandate to govern unless they wake up to bringing about more concensus as to politics and to in effect, grow up.

Treating the voters like idiots and avoiding telling the truths they need to hear,then the price in the future will be likely even more devastating for them.

I really believe the voters are sick of being taken for granted and for fools by the 2 main parties particularly, so they have to be blamed for split parliaments.
Had they 'both' done fair and right things in govt;,being given 2 really good unbroken runs in govt; too,then this discussion would not likely be even taking place.