Researchers at the University of Lancaster suggest that a hung parliament would have the least number of tossers in cabinet. Their research suggests that a completely new government starts out strong but not long into a new parliament ends up with the chancellor being a tosser though sometimes pipped at the post by the home secretary. The pattern usually follows with health, education and defense ministers becoming tossers. The research goes on to show that the longer a party is in power, the more tossers there are in cabinet and they suggest that maximum saturation is reached when a leader has been in power for eight years. They say that Thatcher's cabinet was full of tossers by the end of her leadership as was Blair's. But controversially they say that Brown's cabinet was full of tossers from day one.
They argue that the leader of a hung parliament would wish to demonstrate decisiveness on the greyer topics where either answer is "good enough". Where either answer was unpalatable they outline the advantages of deferring to the supporting parties view as the leader there would be keen to be seen to make tough decisions. Consequently, they believe that the need for coin tossing on policy decisions would practically disappear.
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Hung parliament would limit the number of tossers in the cabinet.
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