The coalition thread

[Scunner]

Con-Lib deal and got rid of Brown to boot? Good 24 hours work that  

[Highlander]

My daughter suggested that they declare the election null and void and run the whole shooting match again in 4 weeks time.

Now that we seen what each of the three main parties are really like (or at least have been give a glimpse of what they are really like)and what they are each willing to give or not give, is that such a bad idea.

[Scunner]

All this is caused by an election that resulted in a hung parliament. The two possible solutions both involve agreement to bring in voting reform, to a system that almost exclusively results in hung parliaments. It might be progress, but it might also be ludicrous. I might watch Home and Away instead.

[Colwyn]

The latest rumour is that Clegg has got some movement on fairer income tax with no tax on first £10,000 of earnings - but what and when it is we will have to wait to find out. Things are getting better and better. Soon, it seems, we will have the second unelected PM in a row.

[Chinook]

Colwyn I didn't think that the electorate ever chose a PM.
Nick Clegg needs to get as much as he can out of these negotiations as once the deal is done the Lib Dems effectively emasculate themselves from persuing the implementation of policies from their manifesto which are at odds with the Tories'

[Scunner]

Labour MP Kate Hoey told Sky News that the party should forget ideas of weak coalitions or alliances and accept that they lost - get themselves across to opposition and sort themselves out and aim for better times with a new leader at the next election, which might not be too far away.

At last, someone in the Labour Party seems to be in touch with something approaching reality

[Chinook]

Totally agree:D

[Chinook]

Agree totally:D

[Colwyn]

Quite right, Chinook. You can't elect the PM and you can't even elect the person who will become PM unless you happen to live in their constituency. Which I never have. I was merely stirring up the Tories who have been bleating that Brown was unelected. They have their own "unelected" PM now there by virtue of the fact that his party didn't lose by as much as the other parties did.

[Scunner]

They could sidestep such accusations by making Nick Clegg the unelected PM