Poll: Poll Please!! - Coalition or Minority Government?

What do you think is most likely?

  • Minority Conservative Government

    Votes: 32 17.5%

  • Conservative / Liberal Democrat Government

    Votes: 72 39.3%

  • Labour / Liberal Democrat + nationals Government

    Votes: 52 28.4%

  • Pancake.

    Votes: 27 14.8%
  • Total voters
    183
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When will this all be decided?

Ahleckz said:
The "Thatcher is the devil and ruined our lives" argument has been played out in every single political thread on here. I can't be done getting into it again.
All I will say is the Conservative party of today is not the Conservative party that was about under Thatcher. Indeed, Labour today isn't the Labour that was.
Parties evolve and accordingly people shouldn't be so blind and nostalgic in their thinking and remember the events of a generation ago to be proof that they'll happen again.
That's all I'm going to say on the matter.
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Up here too Labour is fairly strong. I've lost count of the number of people I've asked in real life who when asked have replied "well, it's what my family have always voted / they're who I voted for last time". Turnout might be good, but people really just don't seem to care enough to vest any sort of deep interest in who they vote for these days.
 
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Greenlizard0 said:
When will this all be decided?
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End of the week, for sure. They really can not allow it to go on any further, the money men are already getting shirty.

Could be tomorrow, but the fact of the matter is no one actually knows as we do not know the details of negotiations.
From what I understand, everyone is having a big meeting tomorrow with their respective groups - Parlimentary parties, and key members of each respective party group as a whole.
This'll be where the final debates are held and the final decisions are made. All deals will be made up that day, and then a formal request will be made to form government on Wednesday.
Thus, I suspect to see our PM on Friday by the latest but I suspect we'll know by 8pm tomorrow. (I'm going on a date, with someone who isn't in the least interested in politics at half 7 though - so I hope it's a bit earlier!)
 
Energize said:
You must be joking, if there was a Lib/Lab government no one would vote for either ever again. They would be destroyed in the next election.
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Not necessarily to be fair. If the coalition did well and oversaw growth in the economy and cleaned up politics both parties would look very favourable in any future election.
 
fornowagain said:
Lol, yeah like that could happen.
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Undoubtly you'd have thought the same thing if someone 5 years ago said there was going to be a housing crash in america which would nearly destroy our economy and cost the country hundreds of thousands of jobs due to the reprecussions of it.

None of us can predict the future, so its best to keep an open mind.
 
James J said:
Undoubtly you'd have thought the same thing if someone 5 years ago said there was going to be a housing crash in america which would nearly destroy our economy and cost the country hundreds of thousands of jobs due to the reprecussions of it.

None of us can predict the future, so its best to keep an open mind.
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Hardly, sounds quite plausible. I would most certainly have entertained the concept of an American housing crash destroying our economy. As they say, its all happened before and will happen again. Still, there's a difference between having an open mind and one so open everything falls out. So no I cannot conceive of a Lab/Lib pack cleaning up politics, I would expect quite the opposite.
 
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Labour/Lib Dem coaltion; the progressive alliance.

Their manifestos are idealogically aligned and they share over 15 million votes between them over the tories 10.

I said on Friday that there was no way the tories and lib dems could form a coaltion; they are idealogically at oppoisite ends of the spectrum on too many issues.

If one looks at anything other than the right wing 'sponsored' press who think they can predict and influence the election it shows clear democracy at work. In a hung parliament the parties need to look for commonality and shold form a government based on shared policies. The lib dems would be betraying their founding beliefs if they propped up the tories and would be going against the wishes of the 5 million people who voted for them.
 
SkeeterUK said:
And those that cant? No jobs in north east last time they were in power i doubt there would be if they got power this time.
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That was because the north east was (and again is) too dependent on the unaffordable government teat and has an unreasonable expectation for it to continue. When their economically unproductive welfare jobs are taken away it does damage to the areas economy, but for some reason they keep falling into the same trap and instead of trying to get an economy of their own, start demanding more money again as soon as Labour get into power...
 
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