Apparently Canada's minority Parliament technically was unable to handle the recession just past... even though it did rather nicely. You see, the work in the UK is that a Parliament witohut a majority means DISASTER!!!

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, and Ken Clarke, the shadow business secretary, predicted that the bond markets would collapse while the parties “haggled” over possible coalitions, leading to the intervention of the IMF. Mr Clarke warned that the public had failed to appreciate the seriousness of the election given the troubled state of the economy, and the full consequences of an indecisive result and a hung parliament... Mr Osborne insisted that the Conservative leadership had not discussed what the party would do in the event of a hung parliament, and despite opinion polls consistently showing that this was the most likely outcome of the election, saying that the party was expecting to form a majority.

So, if the public is looking for a party that is prepared and tied into the reality of the moment - does Mr. Osborne and his Tories get a vote? IN other signs of panic, the Prime Minister is desperate, the UKIP needs to pack it in, the LibDems spin people have lost their notes and Scottish nationalists are loving it.