And, from the Scottish perspective, it is very hard to claim that the new government has "no mandate". 12 MPs and 36% of the vote, thanks.
The only problem is that this new government will have to take some of the hardest and most unpopular decisions in history.
Still, the world looks slightly brighter this evening than it did this morning.
EDIT TO ADD: Oh, and we will now have, in the shape of Clegg, another Cambridge man at the centre of government. Even if he did only go to Robinson
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The no mandate argument will not work for the moment - as Salmond seems to have noticed as he has shut up about it - because the combined votes of the two parties is more than the SNP got to take power here.
Difference of course with Westminster is that Holyrood generally reflects the votes cast by the electorate.
Fun and games will start if some maverick English Tory MPs start causing problems towards any legislation extending devolution.
And of course the aforementioned group behaving themselves as Scottish Questions and on the Scottish select committee (which packed full English Conservative MPs as the largest group on it) will make the whole situation look like a bad farce.
If the English votes for English laws is implemented then there will need to be a change in the select committee as well as an opposite effect of that move.
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