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It’s all rather dramatic right now in Britain, with a new PM and sneaky deals going on behind closed doors. Instead, from egg throwing to costumed voters, The Telegraph’s havin’ a laff at the funniest election moments.

Britain is seriously considering adopting a preferential voting system to avoid big messes like the one they’re currently swimming in. But just how different would the election result have been?

Gordon Brown has finally pulled out the Samson Option, offering his resignation to a packed media horde outside No.10 Downing Street early on Monday evening.

“The people have voted for change” is bull, since there is no one single voice of Britain, says Stephen Fry. He gives his take on the UK election debacle with a bit of fudge and bananas thrown in.

Gordon Brown has fallen on his sword, announcing he will stand down as Labour leader in a last-ditch attempt to keep David Cameron out of office and form a “Coalition of losers” with the Lib Dems.

In 18 months Kevin Rudd and co have managed to get our national debt to a whopping one fifth of a trillion dollars. Prepare to watch Wayne Swan spin out of control with this budget, writes John Izzard.

The UK has no government, collective decision-making seems impossible, radically different agendas are being run, and the man in the street will be the loser.

So the Great British General Election took place and voters woke up in Alice’s Wonderland. A disintegrating evolution has ended by setting the stage for a political revolution, writes Scottish Nationalist Tom Nairn.

Nick Clegg — likely very soon to be the kingmaker of David Cameron and the kingkiller of Gordon Brown — is also evidently the most culturally interested of the three. W H Chong examines his favourite music, books and plays.

A day out from the UK election: Brown has just given his best performance ever, Cameron says he’ll campaign through the night, and Clegg is looking as real as burning plastic.

In a pre-election op-ed for the Guardian, embattled British PM Gordon Brown: the Lib Dems’ Nick Clegg is dreaming if he thinks the Tories are interested in any sort of progressive alliance.

Clumsy Gordon Brown isn’t the greatest candidate for UK PM. But compared to David Cameron, a humanoid of “advanced alien technology”, he’s definitely preferable, writes Charlie Brooker.

The third and final UK leaders debate left little doubt that Cameron won it, with Clegg a decisive second and Broon the hat-trick wooden spooner.

What the U.K. Election debate and its impact have pointed to is surely a need for revolution. The Great-British identity is now more shaky and imponderable than that of Australia or EU nations, writes Tom Nairn.

UK’s party leaders have had their third and final televised debate, and the pollsters are calling it a win to the Torie’s David Cameron. Check out all the least boring bits.

News that British PM Gordon Brown called a voter a “bigot” has exploded in the UK press. But it’s all just part of the Mudoch media’s attempt to decide the election, writes former Deputy PM John Prescott.

The Labour guy was good, he was too good, he gave his spiel like he’d done a thousand times before, the Tory kid sounded like he was presenting Q3 figures for the south-east regional health centre, and the Lib Dem, well she tried.

It’s bollocks that Nick Clegg is an Obama figure, even if he did hold his own in the debate.

The second UK leaders debate has just wrapped up, and all eyes were on overnight success Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg. Could he pull off an encore of his debut performance? Judge for yourself, then check out what the early polls and pundits have to say.

Pollies have to show they’ve got their finger on the pulse, that they know what crappy reality TV show everyone is showing. But why do politicians claim to be fans of something they’re not? As the UK election is showing, it’s a mess when politics meets popular culture.

The volatility of British voter sentiment combined with the underwhelming quality of its two major candidates for the prime ministership combined last Thursay to unleash “Cleggmania” upon the United Kingdom, writes Dr Aron Paul.