Bemused about politics

I keep seeing on the BBC and elsewhere that "the people voted for a hung parliament." (That Sky reporter certainly seemed to be rather insistent on the point.)

I can't believe that's quite right.

I didn't vote for a hung parliament, though I knew that was a likely outcome. I voted LibDem, because I wanted my MP to be a LibDem MP, or at least not a Tory. I hoped that lots more people in lots more places would do the same, and that (unlikely as it might be) the LibDems would thus become strong enough to form a government. I didn't know how other people would vote (though I might have been able to make an educated guess) and I certainly didn't get the result I wanted, and I think most other voters, if you were to ask them, would say the same. The Labour supporters will have voted to keep Labour strongly in power, or at least keep the Tories out. The Tory supporters will have voted with the intention of giving David Cameron a landslide majority. If anyone did vote with the intention that no party should have overall power, that must be a very disinterested individual.

If twenty million people, asked individually, give answer A, it's odd to assume that the same group of people, taken en masse, would give answer B.

We got a hung parliament. I wouldn't say we wanted it, and I wouldn't say any of us voted for it.

Or am I wrong?

Uru--the nonsense goes on

I have for a while now been a member of the Guild of Writers in Uru. I hoped to be able to create my own Ages some day and share them with other explorers.

However, since the situation I alluded to in an earlier post, the de facto leaders of said guild have become more and more disaffected with what they perceive as their ill-treatment by Cyan, and I have established today that it is actually not possible to have a civilised conversation with them about it. They only respond to the abusive voices they hear in their own heads. I don't see a future for that guild in any open source Uru that may eventually develop. Which is a shame, because they're clever, talented people, probably thoroughly nice in real life, who have elected to perform recto-cranial insertion on this one issue and in the course of this manoeuvre shot themselves squarely in the foot.

So, since I'm no further forward learning to make Ages and probably never will be, I think I'll let my membership of the Guild lapse quietly and just be a player. It's less stressful.

EDIT: there are people in the Guild one can talk to. However, they're not the loudest nor the most prevalent voices, and so they don't "represent" the Guild the way the strident entitlement junkies do. Fortunately, nothing of this comes across to the actual game; it's confined to various forums and blogs.

FURTHER EDIT: one of the people I mentioned above has posted an apology for being as s/he put it "an ass", in the light of a very informative communication from a major person at Cyan which has put to rest some if not all of the questions being asked.

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The Tories are back in, it seems. Nothing else about this situation is of any consequence. Any influence the tiny LibDems try to exert will be swept aside or worked around. The Tories are back in.

Good night, England, it was nice knowing you.

EDIT: ( no, I'm not finished. )