David Cameron is UK's new prime minister

Conservative leader David Cameron is the new UK prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown.
Mr Cameron, 43, is in Downing Street after travelling to Buckingham Palace to formally accept the Queen's request to form the next government.
He said he aimed to form a "proper and full coalition" with the Lib Dems to provide "strong, stable government".
His party won the most seats in the UK general election last week, but not an overall majority.

In a speech at Downing Street, Mr Cameron said he and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg would "put aside party differences and work hard for the common good and the national interest".
He paid tribute to outgoing PM Gordon Brown for his long years of public service and said he would tackle Britain's "pressing problems" - the deficit, social problems and reforming the political system.
Mr Cameron stressed there would be "difficult decisions" but said he wanted to take people through them to reach "better times ahead".
The Conservatives have been in days of negotiations with the Lib Dems - who were also negotiating with Labour - after the UK election resulted in a hung parliament.
But the Lib Dems said talks with Labour failed because "the Labour Party never took seriously the prospects of forming a progressive, reforming government".



Formal agreement
A spokesman said key members of the Labour team "gave every impression of wanting the process to fail" and the party had made "no attempt at all" to agree a common approach on issues like schools funding and tax reform.
"Certain key Labour cabinet ministers were determined to undermine any agreement by holding out on policy issues and suggesting that Labour would not deliver on proportional representation and might not marshal the votes to secure even the most modest form of electoral reform," he said.


However Labour's Lord Mandelson told the BBC they had been "up for" a deal with the Lib Dems, but they had "created so many barriers and obstacles that perhaps they thought their interests lay on the Tory side, on the Conservative side, rather than the progressive side".
After it became clear the talks had failed, Mr Brown tendered his resignation and said he wished the next prime minister well.
In an emotional resignation statement outside Number Ten, Mr Brown thanked his staff, his wife Sarah and their children, who joined the couple as they left for Buckingham Palace.
Mr Brown said it had been "a privilege to serve" adding: "I loved the job not for its prestige, its titles and its ceremony - which I do not love at all. No, I loved the job for its potential to make this country I love fairer, more tolerant, more green, more democratic, more prosperous and more just - truly a greater Britain."



'My fault'
He also paid tribute to the courage of the armed forces, adding: "I will never forget all those who have died in honour and whose families today live in grief."
Later he thanked Labour activists and MPs for all their efforts and told them Labour's general election performance was "my fault, and my fault alone".
The Lib Dem and Conservative teams met for hours of negotiations at the Cabinet Office on Tuesday - four days after the UK general election resulted in a hung parliament.
The talks resumed after Lib Dem negotiators met a Labour team, which followed Mr Brown's announcement on Monday that he would step down as Labour leader by September.
But there were signs throughout the afternoon that the two parties - who together would still not command an overall majority in the House of Commons - would not reach a deal.
Several senior Labour figures, including John Reid and David Blunkett, warned against a coalition with the Lib Dems, particularly if the price involved offering them a referendum on changing the voting system to proportional representation.
After Mr Brown announced he would be stepping down and would see if Labour could do a deal with the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives upped their offer to a promise of a referendum on changing the voting system from existing first past the post system to AV.

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Bollocks...

I don't know what I'm more annoyed about- the fact that David Cameron is prime minister, or the fact that my signature is no longer relevant.

Jesus, I spent ages searching for this picture

Harhar suck it Labourites

Originally Posted by Diphenhydramine

Harhar suck it Labourites

You do realise that few people wanted a Tory government, that Wales and Scotland mostly voted against the Tories? Nick Clegg sold out and allowed Cameron to have a majority. Besides, the cuts that this government will need to do to the budget will make them unpopular for a generation, so who do you really think won the election?

Originally Posted by skycloud86

You do realise that few people wanted a Tory government, that Wales and Scotland mostly voted against the Tories? Nick Clegg sold out and allowed Cameron to have a majority. Besides, the cuts that this government will need to do to the budget will make them unpopular for a generation, so who do you really think won the election?

If Wales and Scotland don't want to be ruled by Westminster they should go and declare independence and leave us alone. God knows we'd probably be better off for it.

I don't think Clegg sold out. I might remind you that their part of the bargain was the implementation of their tax
policy? We don't know what else for sure, but that Lib Dem voters have actually had a promise of their policies to be implemented is a gain for them, not a loss.

WRT cuts and future popularity, we'll see.

"Meet the new boss; Same as the old boss."

I guess Clegg would have taken nearly anything that would get him that proportional representation referendum. What im interested in is britains new european policy and foreign policy in general. Will Clegg become foreign minister? Will the UK become more EU-friendly?

Originally Posted by Diphenhydramine

If Wales and Scotland don't want to be ruled by Westminster they should go and declare independence and leave us alone. God knows we'd probably be better off for it.

Jeez, no one said that the Welsh wanted independence. To be honest, as much as we blather on about it, we're actually scared of it.

If this election has proved anything, it's that we need electoral reform. Hopefully Clegg will push for the reform, but who knows what's going to happen next?

Yes, it's a crappy situation for Labour voters, but it's also a clean slate, and more than anything, I hope that David Cameron can prove me wrong and have a go at being a decent PM. He's certainly got nothing to lose at this point.



Hoodie Cameron is right: we is all in this together.

Originally Posted by Arachnophobia

I guess Clegg would have taken nearly anything that would get him that proportional representation referendum. What im interested in is britains new european policy and foreign policy in general. Will Clegg become foreign minister? Will the UK become more EU-friendly?

Britain is already very EU friendly. We signed the constitution anyway.

Clegg won't be foreign minister -- Conservative William Hague has that position already but I think there's an EU Secretariat on its own that a Lib Dem could get. Personally I'm hoping that Europe was not an area where the Conservatives compromised.

Originally Posted by HonourThyCat

Jeez, no one said that the Welsh wanted independence. To be honest, as much as we blather on about it, we're actually scared of it.

I've heard different things from other Welshmen -- of course, everyone has different opinions, but I feel that Wales seems to much closer to England than Scotland.

Originally Posted by HonourThyCat

If this election has proved anything, it's that we need electoral reform. Hopefully Clegg will push for the reform, but who knows what's going to happen next?

Yes, it's a crappy situation for Labour voters, but it's also a clean slate, and more than anything, I hope that David Cameron can prove me wrong and have a go at being a decent PM. He's certainly got nothing to lose at this point.

The electoral reform thing is interesting. I don't think it will pass -- Labour and Tory backbenchers simply will not vote their seats into oblivion, I'm sure of it. Labour will spin PR as bad, and the Tory grassroots and backbench HATE it. We might get AV+, but that isn't PR.

I didn't vote Tory and I've always seen Cameron as a wet -- an inspiring wet, but still not someone who I align myself much very with. My dislike of him comes not because he's an old Etonian, which I like, or a slimy tory, which I don't think is true, or a Thatcherite -- it's because he's not enough of a Thatcherite that I dislike him. He's simply too wet, but as you say, we're all in this together, so...