Legitimate government?

Gordon Brown resigns so that the Lib Dems will have the cover they need in order to support a minority Labour government rather than a Conservative one. A Labour/Lib Dem government would still be a minority government but crucially in matters financial they could almost certainly rely on the SNP and PC for support in not making any cuts to welfare, any departments full of their supporters or to projects centred on the North and those parts of 'the Union' favoured with devolved government.

Some questions:
Will the Lib Dems really want to be associated with keeping Gordon Brown in power as Prime Minister until a successor is chosen? This might be a step too far even for the most power hungry Lib Dem; so maybe Labour will look at Gordon Brown leaving office sooner than he has so far intimated and being replaced by someone more palatable to the Lib Dems as a caretaker Prime Minister until a new Labour leader is elected - Alan Johnson would be the obvious figure. The trouble with that scenario is that the Labour party will then have had two or maybe three 'unelected' Prime Ministers on the trot; is that acceptable to anyone but the Labour party? I am sure the BBC will find a way to justify it, well they will just parrot Peter Mandelson's line .

Is it right that the UK country will then be governed by the two parties that lost seats and votes in the general election? Does the UK really want to governed by a coalition of all the losers?

Can it be right that England voted Conservative - of the 532 seats so far contested in England the Conservatives won an absolute majority with 61 seats more than all other parties combined - but will have a government of Labour and others in part because of Scottish votes. What legitimacy can a government of this make-up have to govern England? Will this add spice to the question as to why Scottish (and Welsh MPs) can vote on legislation that affects only England, but that English MPs have no such role in voting on policy in Scotland? Why should the English have to suffer lower levels of per capita spending on health and education than the Scots but pay more per capita in taxation?

The time may have arrived for the Conservative party to accept that the Scottish and (to a lesser degree) the Welsh hate the English and only tolerate us because we subsidise their better services and state funded lifestyles. Once the Conservative party accept that then they can look at dropping the '& Unionist' part from the party title and look at home rule for the English. Yes the BBC will trot out the 'Little Englander' tag and yes it means going back on all those 'for the sake of the Union' speeches, but why should English taxpayers pay to be ruled by Celts. The Scottish electorate complained about illegitimate Conservative rule of Scotland during the last Conservative government, well 'the times they are a'changing' and the English will not be happy. This could be very fertile ground for the Conservatives, they lose one Scottish seat and eight seats in Wales but how many more might they gain from English voters sick of foreign rule?