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The term began with a real surprise, the return of the so-called Grand Coalition, also known as GroKo, a name stolen from the Germans, where it means a Government between the CDU and SPD. The British version of this GroKo is a surprising coalition between the centre-left Labour Party and the centre-right Conservative and Unionist Party. In March of 2018, the then leaders of both parties decided to work together for the first time, meaning that the then leader of the Conservative Party, LeafyEmerald, could stay in place. This time around it made the leader of the Labour Party, Frost_Walker2017 the Prime Minister.

Labour chose to enter GroKo over entering a rendition of the Rose Governments, this time a Government between Solidarity, Labour, and the Pirate Party. This surprised a lot of people, even Labour’s own leadership team. It showed the widening cracks between Solidarity and Labour, which started to occur after the last Rose Government and created three terms of bad relations between both parties. The conclusion is that a big majority of Labour’s members rejected an offer of a government with Solidarity over a government with the Conservatives, which creates its own difficulties.

The difficulties are beginning to show, three weeks into the Government. The first cracks began to show on a motion from the Muffin Raving Loony Party on the topic of an English Anthem. Seven Labour MPs and four Conservative MPs, amongst those one of the Deputy Leader of the Conservatives. The votes didn’t change the outcome, the motion failed because of the 111 MPs voting against the motion.

The biggest cracks happened on the National Health Service and General Practice Bill and the Water Authorities Bill. On both occasions, all Labour MPs voted in favour of the bills and all Conservative MPs voted against the bills. Both times the bill passed, causing the latter bill to receive Royal Assent. The first bill of the two had a different path though, it received Royal Assent after the FAYE Secretary and two other Conservatives decided to switch sides and support Labour’s side of the argument.

Labour and the Conservatives are desperately trying to show that nothing’s happening and everything’s fine. The resignation of the Prime Minister and the election of a new leader can cause some troubles as we have seen in the past with Prime Ministers such as CheckMyBrain11, WillShakespeare99, or SapphireWork. The transition of one Prime Minister to another during a term can cause some bumps in a relationship that looked steady before. Perhaps that didn’t count for sunrise though, that was bumpy the entire ride.

History will tell us if GroKo 2 is going to go down the same route as the first edition of the coalition, but the sad thing about cracks is that you can try to repair them, but they will always be there.