Well, there you go then. Not the night I thought we were going to have at all. I must say I felt very depressed watching late into the night, especially after Dr Evan Harris lost his seat. Caroline Lucas' win was the only really pleasing moment.

That said, I think Nick Clegg is doing the right thing, at least morally. I believe in a more proportional system of representation. I think a country that is split between different ideas is better represented by a compromise, and a Lib Dem-Tory agreement is the best way to represent the most amount of people (60% of all votes we cast for those two parties). Now, had Labour and the Lib Dems enough seats between them to form such a coalition, I may have a different opinion, because the scope for agreement is greater, so whilst the vote share is smaller, the actual policies might be more representative. But they can't do it. They didn't get enough support.

The anti-Tory sentiment seems to be encouraging people to urge Clegg not to support the Tories. Maybe it's nice for some people to believe that they can keep the Tories out for another term, fair or otherwise. These people need to grow up. Get more involved next time, fight harder for what you believe in and put your trust in whatever system we will have then. If it's undemocratic that the Lib Dems get far less power from their share of the vote, it is just as undemocratic to deny the significantly larger support for the Tories yesterday.