In the UK it'll be regarded in history as an important year for politics, when the coalition was elected and proved to be much more stable than any other coalition government in the UK for a very long time (seriously, I think I remember hearing on the news at the time of the election that no coalition had lasted for more than a year or something, and the last one before this one got forced into a new general election within half a year or something... I might be wrong there, but I'm fairly certain I'm right).
It'll also be marked in history, politically at least, as the year the government decided to renege on its promises to voters and especially towards students, making cuts so severe they ran the risk of a double-dip recession and caused widespread rioting and protests, particularly by students.
My thoughts for 2011? Hopefully, in the UK, we'll be able to force a new election. Also, we'll hopefully be able to rise up against the government (not in a 'V' way, but in a peaceful way where we basically run the country to a halt without any sort of violence and such - every working student to go on strike, for example...) and force them to see that ruining the hopes and futures of the current generation because of the old generation's mistakes is just wrong, and that we won't stand for it or allow it to happen at all.
