Mike Judge, The Christian Institute

The major political parties have not done enough to gain overall support and not one of them have spoken to traditional values strongly enough and that’s one of the reasons why we have a hung parliament.

When you have a hung parliament minority interests can come forward and be very powerful. During that period Christians have to be vigilant as to what is attempted to be passed by our parliament.

With our system what we need is one party as an overall majority so they can govern strongly. In our nation when you have coalition government in the Westminster parliament it does lead to weak governments that can easily broken down.

Andrea Williams, Christian Concern For Our Nation

There is no on party that is truly capturing the imagination and heart mind of the people of Great Britain. Some great people have been elected and as Christians we need to support them. We need to be fully engaged to ensure that we are involved in formulating Christian values at the heart of our parliamentary system. There are many people with those values in Parliament but a clear signal has not been sounded from the leadership of the three main parties, and that’s why I believe we are in a situation with a hung parliament.

I welcome the opportunity for Christians to be engaged and this will mean that each of the parties will have to listen to the concerns of Christians. We as Christians must wake up and realise that this is an opportunity for us to affect policy and politics. As a nation we need to turn back to Christ at the heart of our systems and government. And we the church need to be speaking the truth to the public.

Peter Saunders, Christian Medical Fellowship and Westminster 2010 campaigner

I think people will be very concerned at a time when there are very important decisions that need to be made, particularly about the economy, and there is no one with a clear mandate to make them. I hope the issue will be resolved.

The problem with any coalition government is that the parties have quite different policies and major issues and inevitably compromise arrangements and confessions will have to be made.

No one at the moment has a clear majority to govern freely. I think at Westminster 2010 we are currently analysing the people who made pledges and want to be supportive on issues of concern to Christians. It will be interesting to check what’s happened in these constituencies.

Daniel Webster, Evangelical Alliance

We have seen a confused result with no overall majority for the Conservatives. Nor do we have a situation where any two parties can easily form a coalition government and the Conservatives have got enough seats but not enough to govern on their own.

They have also ruled out going into coalition with the Liberal Democrats but then Labour and the Lib Dems cannot form a coalition between the two of them as they wouldn’t have an overall majority. So we have quite a messy situation now and I suspect we will see a situation where the Conservatives will try to govern on their own.

Gordon Brown is still the Prime Minister. He has to resign but until the Queen’s Speech in two weeks he is still the prime minister and he can stay in Downing Street as long as he likes.

I would welcome the parties to work together but the way they work together needs to be transparent. If we do have a coalition it needs to be done openly. The danger is when deals are made behind closed doors and the manifestos the elected politicians won their votes through are thrown out the window in order to form a government.

I think the government of the country has to represent as much of the people as possible. I think if Labour were able to form a coalition with other parties including the Lib Dems they would represent a large number of people. The Conservatives has gathered a largest say of the vote and they are therefore in a position to take the first step to try and form a government

Ian Geary, Christian Socialist Movement

It feels that the nation hasn’t made a choice. It’s very difficult for Labour. The Conservatives really should have done better and the leader does not appeal to different ideas. The Lib Dems had a good campaign but it hasn’t translated into seats.

It would be interesting to see the parties working together and to see if that provides a more co-operative politics. I am not convicted by coalition and hung parliaments. I think you need clear government, I don’t think the coalition will stabilise, we could see another election in 12 to 18 months.