Welcome David Cameron, new British PM

The speculation about who would be Britain's prime minister after the general election of May 6 delivered a hung parliament is now over. David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party has become premier of Britain after successfully clinching a coalition deal with the Liberal Democratic Party. We welcome him on his assumption of office.
The indecisive verdict of the British electorate in last Thursday's general election forced the parties that came first (the Conservatives) and second (the Labour) to enter into a race to woo the Liberal Democrats, the third largest party in parliament to prove their majority in parliament and cobble together a workable coalition government. Despite a lot of horse-trading by the major players in British politics in the process of forming a government, it has all ended on a positive note. The erstwhile premier David Brown of Labour Party, the loser in the polls, has conceded defeat gracefully. Accepting the responsibility for his party's debacle, he has also quit the leadership of the party. After all, the arithmetic was clearly in favour of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition and that also suited the promise of delivering a stable government to the British people. Significantly, a consensual approach worked all the way across the board before reaching the final outcome.
And David Cameron's success in proving his majority in parliament paved the way for the incumbent prime minister David Brown to bow out of office with grace and dignity after tendering his resignation to the Queen.
The beauty of the entire exercise through which the British politicians succeeded in effecting smooth transition of power is that the leaders involved in the fray never demeaned themselves, their parties or the nation. On the contrary, they always placed the interest of the nation above everything else.
We hope the new prime minister David Cameron along with his coalition colleague in the cabinet Nick Clegg as deputy prime minister will be able to bridge their differences further and be up to the challenges Britain is faced with such as reduction of the huge government deficit to the tune of US$240 billion, solving the issue of immigration through softening up the Conservatives' stand on the non-European immigration, Britain's being part of the European Union and so on. Tasks ahead will no doubt be difficult as he himself admitted in his speech from the lectern at the No 10 Downing Street.
We wish David Brown and Nick Clegg to steer the country out to stability and continued prosperity.