The headlines proclaim now the real work starts. After months of debate and ducking of the issues there is no hiding from hard decisions about cutting public spending and reducing the deficit.
Election drama and political uncertainty may be exercising the market in the UK, but sharp falls overnight in stock markets round the world were a reaction to a different factor: the surprising complacency demonstrated by the European Central Bank (ECB)...
So what do out of work MPs do now? Get a job in financial markets?
There is every danger the UK could be turning into a nation of savers with last week's IMA figures revealing the strongest savings into Isas for nearly a decade.