The current government 'represents' 59.1% of the voters. Granted it's not very good representation.
Yeah, it's fair to say the current government bucks the trend on those terms, for a number of reasons however I'm not convinced it's any more democratic (I think I'd be in the majority arguing it's less so - and I'm someone who largely envies continental PR coalitions).
Of course it's less democratic. 59.1% may have voted for the governing parties but neither voted for a coalition or with the idea or assumption of a Conservative-Liberal coalition as they put their cross on the ballot paper. And even worse again, the coalition is governing not on a manifesto, but on a coalition agreement which didn't even exist when Britain voted.
That's how our coalition's different from a European one. We just assumed the Tories would get elected to a minority and stumble on for a few months until another election. European countries (I presume), like Germany, make assumptions about what tone of government their vote will produce - Green voters knowing that their vote will probably be used to form a red-green government, FDP voters assuming a black-yellow.
