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I saw this article from The Independent and thought it might be of interest to you.  Beleaguered and defeated MP and former Home Secretary (i.e. Minister of Interior Affairs) Jacqui Smith writes a letter to Conservative MP and her replacement at the Home Office, Theresa May, on the challenges that await on this job. Some of them include tackling crime, including how communities are essential in combating it, police matters, and immigration. It is also a warning that much of the policies implemented - good and bad - will be inevitably judged in terms of her gender. Click on the link below.   The handover: An open letter from Jacqui Smith to Theresa May Both the letter and David Cameron's inaugural speech in Front of 10 Downing Street's door paying hommage to former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown are testimony that there is still some semblance of civility in politics. The British may yet give us some lessons in it.  Tell me what you think... © 2009 Independent News a...

Mr Cameron, who at 43 is the youngest PM in nearly 200 years, vowed to set aside party differences and govern "in the national interest". BBC News - David Cameron is UK's new prime minister

Check out the BBC News' live feed on the aftermath of last Thursday's elections in the United Kingdom. This is their latest, "2338: As Tuesday's 'crunch time' approaches, the Lib Dems are continuing to work out which deal to accept, if any. Labour and the Tories should find out more about their futures - and that of UK politics - in the next few hours." Click the link below: BBC News - Election 2010 - Live coverage - General Election 2010 :

This Twitter post from the Wall Street Journal offers a brief report and shows a graphic evidencing a positive market response to the European Union's bailout of Greece. Check it out and read the comment below. EU Bailout: Here's a Good Sign: Is the overwhelming show of financial force by Eurozone enough to sooth market... http://on.wsj.com/bDqxwJ Funny that this should come from the WSJ considering its philosophy... And we all know how much this newspaper loves the state and governments... I'll leave you to it, but tell me what you think. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

In this table I put some probable outcomes of the upcoming elections in the United Kingdom. Scenarios in British Elections Suggestions and additions are welcome.

"Labourites [affiliates of the British Labour Party] would have a strong incentive to cooperate: Neal Lawson, head of Labour-affiliated think tank Compass, warned that the alternative was irrelevance." 'If we are now in an era of three party politics then the party that fails to build a partnership condemns itself to the wilderness.' Read the rest of this report on the British election from AP in the link below The Associated Press: Wild scenarios emerge in UK's chaotic election