Constitution wise I believe Cameron would be asked by the Queen to form a minority government as leader of the party with the most seats.
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Constitution wise I believe Cameron would be asked by the Queen to form a minority government as leader of the party with the most seats.
Cons would get in.
He could just do that then, to stop any inter-party problems?
Who starts all this facebook crap? Considering most people that use Facebook were 8 when the tories were last in power (me included) what do they have against them? Other than the usual Teacher/lecturer hatred of the tories which is instilled into them, a youtube video which says cameron's a snob and possibly closed minded family members stating "Thatcher was mean".
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If Clegg doesn't join with Brown, brown can't get enough seats to form a majority and he'll have to go, even if he got every other group to sign up with him it wouldn't be enough.
Conservatives "might" be able to get all groups bar Labour/Dems together to form a majority over a joint Labour/Lid Dem group.
Without Lib Dem Browns utterly screwed and Conservatives are in but without a majority vote in the parliament, but still the largest and vots don't have to be along party lines so they can push things through with a few Labour/Lid Dem votes added in which happens often.
Just a shame that Conservative swings weren't quite big enough and the gap from the last election was so massive between Labour/Torys, a hung parliament is fairly bad no matter whose in charge, though its not like its 33% of the seats each, which would be a complete nightmare, Torys only need a few people to vote against their party on things to win votes, we'll just have to see how it plays out.
If Labour screw every vote for the next 4 years though they'll likely get the blame from everyone and next election could be a huge Tory majority like Labour last time, just to avoid a hung parliament.
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PR is the answer to that. The will of the people MUST be reflected in the political make up of Parliment. As others have posted, PR works in other countries around the World without issue, there's no reason it couldn't work here.
Who starts all this facebook crap? Considering most people that use Facebook were 8 when the tories were last in power (me included) what do they have against them? Other than the usual Teacher/lecturer hatred of the tories and the odd youtube video I really just don't get it.
It's kewl innit.
There would be another election.
I think. I'm just guessing. That's probably not right....would be interesting though......but also boring.I think GB should stay Prime Minister for next 4 years as it's clear not enough people want a change, Cameron is EVIL and should be killed on the spot.
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Almost nothing, then, if they side with the cons
Cameron's speech was largely "we'll work with them where our policies agree", which, when you think about it, means they'll simply implement tory policies and nothing else.
Exactly what I thought.
Lib Dems did see roughly 1% extra votes, which is quite impressive when the overall turnout was higher. Considering the huge surge in popularity was from undependable students, I'd say there's a good case for the Lib Dems to be positive about this and demand everything they can from the conservatives.
Who starts all this facebook crap? Considering most people that use Facebook were 8 when the tories were last in power (me included) what do they have against them? .
well for a start my whole 'working class' family was completely shafted by them...
How?
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It's not a protest especially in favor of PR, it's a protest in favor of reforming the electoral system.
But all three parties are offering a reform of the electoral system, so what is there to protest about?
Just noticed, if cornwall had stayed more loyal to liv dem then they'd have done pretty well this eelction, easily passing 60. I was expecting about 70 seats for them this election, but obviously not!
If i was clegg i'd not do a coalliton with anyone, merely vote for the voting system referendum, get it through, then re-run the election
If i was clegg i'd not do a coalliton with anyone, merely vote for the voting system referendum, get it through, then re-run the election
At least the tories have been honest about their view on changing the electoral system (they aren't anti-reform, but they don't want to move to PR), unlike Labour who change their policy randomly based on what suits them the most at the time, and indeed AV is actually less proportional than FPTP.
Clegg is playing it well, but I don't agree that making guaranteed electoral reform a precondition is a good idea, because there are plenty of options to explore around it.
I would love to see Clegg as home secretary though, I think he'd be such a refreshing change in that role in a coalition...