The new coalition government in the eyes of a foreigner

After a thrilling electoral battle, Britain has got its first coalition government
since the Second World War.
And as that would not be enough, we have witnessed another premiere: the first ever TV debate opposing the three main candidates.
The great majority agrees that the winner of the “series” was the Lib-Dem candidate Nick Clegg and the question on everybody's lips was whether he can transform this advantage given by his charisma into real votes.



The will of the people rather showed that a certain public appeal is not enough to win more votes than your competitors, but even so, Liberal-Democrats got 23 per cent of the popular vote, up by one from the previous election, back in 2005.
Conservatives, the winning party with 307 seats but just short of majority, were “forced” to ask for help from Lib-Dems to form a coalition government which many analysts saw as an unnatural way to lead the country through tough times.
But the heavily emphasised “country” so forcefully stated by the PM David Cameron in his speeches urgently needed a strong and stable government and the decision of forming the coalition was made after hard negotiations, finally put into black and white and ratified by the Queen on the 11 of May.

What are the expectations from this new coalition government?

Conservatives promised solutions on hot topics like tackling the economic downturn mainly by cutting unnecessary expenses, reforms in education, NHS, social care and so on.
But one of the most important focus points in the electoral campaign for David Cameron was the immigration issue which he saw as an alarming record of people from abroad coming to Britain in the Labour era.
As it was expected, the Conservative leader used in his speech"immigration stereotypes” like: the borders will become fortresses or new requirements will be asked for people who want to live and work here.
But in my opinion, as a true immigrant myself coming from Eastern Europe, all those like me have no reason to be scared of immigration as it stands.
I am sure that it will be harder than before to get the right to work here even for an EU national – such as myself - but this is the way it has to be.
The new PM is Conservative and as such he has got to follow his party's defining ideology: protectionism and a sort of isolationism, adapted to the 21st Century.
As an additional fact to support my expectations on government's immigration policies comes the leading duo Cameron-Clegg who say that their goal is to “give people more power over their lives” and seek less centralisation and more individuality, innovation and the most important to my view, diversity.
So if they want diversity, then the most dedicated immigrants should be relieved.