Poll: *** 2010 General Election Result & Discussion ***

[[TW]Fox]

The implication of your picture seems (quite sensibly) to be that most Tories are "Thick as a brick outhouse"

Make your mind up, they were all Eton educated toffs last week.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

Conservative HQ are renewing all staff contracts for 5 months. Normally they cease a month after the election, and a few kept on a rolling basis.

Are they expecting a big job in 5 months time?

 

[semi-pro waster]

Make your mind up, they were all Eton educated toffs last week.

Are the two things mutually exclusive?

Although Conservative voters are by and large no smarter or dumber than any other in my experience.

 

[Sheff]

Feeling in my waters a Con & Lib deal gets struck...in principle....today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8674103.stm

It seems you may be right!

Although you could just be getting your news from another source and your waters have nothing to do with it...

 

[The Mad Rapper]

It's not his fault? As party leader he commands the respect of his party, and as such should be able to hard sell them the idea of joining the Tories.
If he can't then he's either a weak leader, or he wants "more".

OMFG - if you are going to have a go, can't you at least have half a clue about what you're talking about?

Clegg was obliged to talk to both parties, that takes time. So NO, it's not his fault. He's the Leader of a Party, not a dictator. He has to encourage them to do what he believes to be the right thing.

Jesus, some of you want an IQ test for voting, perhaps we ought to have one for posting on the forums as well?

 

[rypt]

He is not obliged to talk to both parties, the numbers for Labour just don't add up to form a majority coalition

 

[The Mad Rapper]

He is not obliged to talk to both parties, the numbers for Labour just don't add up to form a majority coalition

Of course he is. He can't make a decision unless he's fully informed. In order to be fully informed he needs to speak to both parties. The numbers for a Lab/Lib coalition do add up, but it just would be a coalition held to ransom by fringe parties. That is why, hopefully, he'll accept the Conservative offer.

 

[bam0]

He is not obliged to talk to both parties, the numbers for Labour just don't add up to form a majority coalition

If his party tell him they want him to explore the Labour options, then he has to, he's the leader, not a dictator.

 

[rypt]

The numbers don't add up for a stable strong government.

 

[meghatronic]

In a momentary lapse of judgement, I wandered onto the facebook Democracy UK and RATM LibDem group. I thought after LibDems got their bum handed to them on a plate, they'd shut up. But no.... they're still bashing Cameron's Eton background and rimming Clegg.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

The numbers don't add up for a stable strong government.

Give it a rest will you. You've been told you're wrong 3 times now and you're still harping on.

 

[semi-pro waster]

He is not obliged to talk to both parties, the numbers for Labour just don't add up to form a majority coalition

I rather thought that by convention the incumbent government had the right to speak to the "kingmakers" first so that suggests there is some form of obligation to talk there although not an absolute one. How long and how in depth those discussions are is of course up to the parties involved.

 

[meghatronic]

Alex Salmond just made me LOL (well I made a noise): the rainbow coalition would work if MPs "would stop squabbling and bickering and see beyond their own sectional interests".... IS HE HAVING A LAUGH? The SNP are more hung up on a single issue than any other party, even the BNP.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Alex Salmond just made me LOL (well I made a noise): the rainbow coalition would work if MPs "would stop squabbling and bickering and see beyond their own sectional interests".... IS HE HAVING A LAUGH? The SNP are more hung up on a single issue than any other party, even the BNP.

That made me chuckle

 

[meghatronic]

That made me chuckle

I'm pleased I wasn't alone, catching the news in a break form 'work'.

What an opportunistic ****.

Nice to see all the Labour MPs breaking ranks and condemning the action as damaging to the country. I am also incredibly surprised in Tory support for Cameron - even conceding AV or whatever. It speaks wonders about which one represents a strong government.

 

[bam0]

1501: Conservative activist and blogger Iain Dale tells the BBC he understands that Nick Clegg and Vince Cable are "completely signed up to doing a deal with the Conservatives". He claims it is party veterans Lord Ashdown and Sir Menzies Campbell that are "holding them back".

Pretty much as I was thinking, and he can't ride roughshod over them.

 

[Strife212]

Can you keep your mouth shut for a moment?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8675355.stm

 

[stockhausen]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8675355.stm

Yah gotta love Prescott

 

[meghatronic]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8675355.stm

Quite. It's distasteful and disrespectful to shout out over someone else, especially on TV.

I would've preferred "boobies or would you kindly leave", though.

We are on an island with the Tories, but some people hope a lifeboat driven by Ed Balls is going to come along. What they don't realise is that lifeboat is going in the wrong direction and it's sinking.

The problem is Clegg sees himself as some kind of... panjandrum.... and, he might have a point.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Nice to see all the Labour MPs breaking ranks and condemning the action as damaging to the country. I am also incredibly surprised in Tory support for Cameron - even conceding AV or whatever. It speaks wonders about which one represents a strong government.

Yes, Cameron and the Party seniors have shown good leadership.