no, no, take 10 years, Sire

The Apprentice (UK show)
Alan Sugar: "You're fired"
"You need how long to get your job done?" "5 years!"
"Nick Clegg, you're fired, and you make me sick."
"If I let these boys run my company, I'd be fl*6&ked."

The Guardian's Patrick Wintour wrote a fulsome 3-centimeter article about one of the most important aspects of our democracy in the UK:

The length of a government's reign.
Up until now, a government could call an election whenever it suited.
So, our new coalition wants to take choice out of the matter
in the interest of fairness, you see,
and set a time limit.
Of course, it used to be 4 years, maximum, and he wants to make it
5 years, over 1800 days without democracy.
Democracy is voting. One vote every 1820 days is
something less than democracy.
Is a government required to listen to anyone during this time?
Protests, letters, media, starving people in the streets?
Exactly! Therefore, that's not democracy.

In quoting Nick Clegg, VP,
he said
"a four-year parliament would not give an administration
time to govern in the national interest"

Allow me to interpret this. Clegg, VP, likely meant:
"It'll take us 3 years to pay off all the Labour bureaucrats to go away,
install our own boys and start siphoning off money, bigtime."
"We Lib Dems may never get into government again,
and we've got two parties
full of democrats to satisfy."

-Cosusbelly67