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@Oliver Schick
I don't think so--people may well have lost trust in politicians (still a large turnout, which to me was one of the best aspects of the election), it's just that no one party got an absolute majority (of seats). Coalition governments are a perfectly normal outcome for a democracy and it is time that people got used to that.
The voting system is of course rubbish. The Lib Dems got 23% of the vote and only got 57 seats, 8.8% of them. The Conservatives got 36.1% of the vote and 47.1% of the seats. Labour got 29% of the vote and 39.7% of seats. It just doesn't compute. (I'm not a Lib Dem partisan, by the way, I'm just pointing out the discrepancy. I'm not a great fan of democracy, either, but I'd rather that it did what it says on the tin.)
I don't think ruling parties have often had an absolute majority in terms of percentage of the vote, and it is important, I think, for that to be shown up to be the case every once in a while.