The post election wrangling is goig to be a battle between the hyperventilators and the take a deep breath crowd. There is no need for any of the players invovled to make rushed decisions. Whatever the hype, the players who keep a cool head, will do the best.
If Cameron thinks he can bundle Clegg over the goal-line, without making any big concessions, naturallyhe will. If I were Cameron I would try and dare the Lib Dems not o support me, intitially. Why wouldn’t he? If I were Clegg, I’d say tell, Cameron, politely, make a proper offer and demand to sit down and talk it through properly. This again is quite reasonable.
If the Tories and LIb Dems find it impossible to find common ground, then Labour come into play. Of course, both the Tories and Lib Dems know that we are sitting on the sidelines, waving hopefully.
This is now about real politik, negotiation and maximising the value of pressure points. The greatest benefit will go to those who keep the coolest head.
Excert from the Lib Dem Dictionary
Reasonable = Agrees with me
Justifiable = Suits me
Lie = Reasonable
How deep do you think the resistance to thoroughgoing electoral reform goes in the Labour Party – especially among the new intake of MPs?
I think most Labour opposition to a referendum on Electoral Reform has melted away, though some would want that referendum to lose.
“The greatest benefit will go to those who keep the coolest head.”
Bear in mind that Cameron is famously cool in a crisis. Whereas I understand that G Brown likes to punch things after even mild setbacks.
Really? I don’t knw how many _real_ crises Cameron has faced. This is a real one. Gordon has been through the wringer before, grumpy or no.
What did you think of Cameron’s first bid? I thought it was very low, but I’m not a Lib Dem.
Why would England have to have the same system as Scotland it did not work that way the other way around ? With English Laws certain to come in the position for PR is a little more complicated . Or not ?
I have been having to do childcare since ‘working at home’ never really means what it sounds like here.
I am glad I am not advising Nick, that’s all. But I don’t see very much advantage tying up with Labour in any way, to be honest with you.
Oh, and Cameron has faced real political pinch points before – Conference 2007, his leadership campaign.
Here’s an interesting fact. Cameron actually had a contested leadership campaign …
Brown contested a leadership campaign of his own MPs and won. In the same way Hague contested a leadership contest of his own MPs.
Plus he contested shadow cabinet elections, elections to be an MP. And had had to face the financial crisis. All Cameron has had to worry about is where did he put his keys for the Rolls.
I would accept almost any compromise with the Lib Dems if it meant the end of Brown’s premiership. Heck, even the PR referendum would be favourable to that.
Since I got my Tory majority prediction wrong, I’ll have another go.
Lib/Con coalition with maybe Clegg/Laws/Huhne – though definitely NOT Cable – being invited into cabinet.
Labour choose jellyfish Milibanana as leader (great news for the Tories).
Second election called within a year – Tory majority.
GB very deftly exacerbating internal LibDem tensions. He’ll either stay as PM or else, on his way out, ensure the LibDems are *inescapably* lashed to the mast of Tory economic policies.
My high regard for John Major taking a bit a knock too – GB is ‘undignified’ staying as pm? Please…
Some explanation needed:
258 + 57 < 325, so another 10 seats are needed, no? From nationalist parties? Wouldn't that be a very shaky coalition?
Given the outcome, I'd prefer a Tory minority Government and a united Opposition.
(I expect I don't understand. Rookie mistakes, etc.)
The parliament is mostly centre left there is no way the Tories deserve to be a minority government. It is a joke that the tories can get a way with that.
I do not mind them doing a coalition but to be a minority government does not make sense.
Why would the Lib Dems support an unpopular budget?
Hopi you have gone strangely quiet about your borrow and spend all year strategy?
Somebody in the Labour ranks said that the only way they could get rid of Brown would be to smother him with a pillow.
I thought for one silly moment that Brown would go with at least some dignity. It seems that not even a general election can remove him.
Are we that much different from a dictatorship?
“Especially when you try to blame poor Dave Salisbury-Jones, a chap who just like me was tipped to ouvrtern a Tory majority (in Uxbridge) in 2001 and just like me failed to achieve it. If you are going to blame someone, at least have the decency to blame a success. “but he wrote a book to defeat the Libdems, not the tories.
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