we voted for a coalition government?

COMMENT

David and Nick appeared together yesterday to tell us that the coalition was bloodied but unbowed by their reverses at the local elections.
"We may have wanted to govern by ourselves", said David, "But you the people wanted a coalition government and that's what you got".

I've heard this said before and it has partly entered the public consciousness as a "reality", but is it really?. To me it imputes a far greater power to the electorate than exists in real life. We didn't get together as a nation to ensure a hung parliament. That may have been what happened but we didn't plan it out. We couldn't. Or did I miss out on some nationwide conspiracy to vote in one way in 1 constituency and a different way in another, to ensure there would be no overall majority?
I think the reality was that there has never been less difference between what was on offer from the 3 main parties, and as a result we were uncertain which way to vote. We knew they were nearly all corrupt after the expenses scandal, and this eroded our faith in politicians generally. Basically, it was a case of little choice, or even no real choice. Did we really want a coalition? I don't think so.