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After the score-draw Cameron-Miliband clash of last week, and the seven-way leaders’ debate last night, I have rounded up Election 2015 for Beacon readers<\/a> with five weeks to go, concluding:<\/p>\n

What all this means is Britain may well be about to elect no government, or at least not a stable one: as Jon Stewart used to brand US election campaigns, we\u2019re heading for Indecision 2015. When in Britain no party gets a majority of seats on a local authority, the council concerned is said to belong to \u2018no overall control\u2019. On 8 May, we may have to hoist that sign over the whole country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The full article is here.<\/a><\/p>\n

It has after all been a month of strange portents: partial solar eclipses, the reburial of a half-millennium dead king, Jeremy Clarkson whacking a producer<\/a>. As used on Beacon, I did get a decent picture of one of these events, thanks to just the right amount of cloud over Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n

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Solar eclipse over Oxfordshire, and behind thick cloud and a tree, 20 March 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the score-draw Cameron-Miliband clash of last week, and the seven-way leaders’ debate last night, I have rounded up Election 2015 for Beacon readers with five weeks to go, concluding: What all this means is Britain may well be about to elect no government, or at least not a stable one: as Jon Stewart used … Continue reading “Election 2015 for Beacon: it’s looking like no overall control”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,12,304,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media","category-politics","category-scotland"],"yoast_head":"\nElection 2015 for Beacon: it's looking like no overall control<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Looking at the first two leaders' debates, 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