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

[meghatronic]

Hague should be Foreign Secretary
Clegg for the Home Office
Cable for Business as they won't let him be Chancellor

Agreed.

That's all I would give them too. Two most senior LibDem MPs would have a post.

 

[robgmun]

ok, so this 10,000 tax free, surely they'll just hammer people on £25k + to negate the extra money, or will i suddenly see a big rise in my pay packet? (i'm on 28k)

 

[Cosimo]

Hague should be Foreign Secretary
Clegg for the Home Office
Cable for Business as they won't let him be Chancellor

Clegg as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. He deserves nothing more and can be booted out at the first opportunity. The we can have another election.

 

[JohnnyG]

Cable's said a deal is "very, very close to being done", that'll do for me

 

[Russinating]

ok, so this 10,000 tax free, surely they'll just hammer people on £25k + to negate the extra money, or will i suddenly see a big rise in my pay packet? (i'm on 28k)

It's for everyone earning under 100k, and under Lib Dem's manifesto was to be funded by the mansion tax... good luck putting that through a Conservative majority.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Sorry but wasn't what I said or what you asked, you asked why do they HAVE to form a coalition, not why do they HAVE to form a coalition FOR A MAJORITY?

You can't move the goal post, they won the election and if Lib Dem weren't whoring/bribing/blackmailing themselves around Torys would have formed a minority government. Please show me where I talked about how effective they would be, or how they'd form a majority government.

I didn't, you said they DID not win the election and HAD to form a coalition.

Both of your statements are completely incorrect.

They both won the election and could form the government purely on the basis of having the most seats.

No, we've covered it at length, a minority government would have had a very hard time passing legislation, but not impossible(they didn't need a massive number of votes from right leaning Lib Dems, and other similar MP's to pass a few things) but that would STILL have been a government, a TOry government, and formed because they WON THE DAMN ELECTION.

Sigh. Yet another (Errrmm??) that can't understand reality. They didn't win

 

[Rich_L]

Why are so many teachers lib dem supporters do you think? It is a career I am just starting to study towards and so will obviously have to avoid any discussion of politics in the future

Thatcher basically meant they all hate the Tories (she did a very good job at antagonising a lot of professions, quelle surprise) and they dislike Labours targets and examination strategy so that leaves the LibDems.

I know Thatcher's government brought in the national curriculum, national tests and league tables and suchlike, as well as drastically cutting funding for education leading to pay cuts and dilapidated school buildings so perhaps it's understandable why she's unpopular. Labour continued the testing and league table themes which aren't particularly popular either although I suspect them not being Tories gets them a decent amount of support.

 

[atpbx]

Is it possible that Lord Mandelson has whacked David Miliband and his cadaver is being carted off in the back of a car Goodfellas style ?

This just to ' help ' the leadership election along.

You know you say that, someone was actually playing the godfather theme tune in the background when Milliband went up to reporters and told them that the negotiations were going well, because my wife burst out laughing when she identified the piece of music.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Clegg as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. He deserves nothing more and can be booted out at the first opportunity. The we can have another election.

Which I presume the Conservatives would quite like any way - they'll hope for an outright majority next time around, and the Lib-Dems will be out in the cold for another decade or so. The situation wasn't of Clegg's making, but I do feel that the Party will suffer badly if there's another GE in the immediate future.

 

[Luseac]

It's for everyone earning under 100k, and under Lib Dem's manifesto was to be funded by the mansion tax... good luck putting that through a Conservative majority.

BBC's peston reporting that there will be no increase in the inheritance tax threshold so I guess that help pay for it. I'm in 2 minds about it - I don't think we should really be giving any tax breaks at the moment, yet it should act as a big encouragement for people to get into work.

 

[Russinating]

I don't think we should really be giving any tax breaks at the moment, yet it should act as a big encouragement for people to get into work.

That extra ~£3.5k will still go back into the economy and help support various sectors remember. Imagine how much that will help first time buyer's chances for example.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

That extra ~£3.5k will still go back into the economy and help support various sectors remember. Imagine how much that will help first time buyer's chances for example.

Property prices need to reduce to realistic levels first, and then banks and building societies need to be willing to lend.

 

[Rich_L]

It's only 20% of 3.5k, but an extra 70 quid a month for people on 10k (or above) isn't to be sniffed at certainly.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

It's only 20% of 3.5k, but an extra 70 quid a month for people on 10k (or above) isn't to be sniffed at certainly.

Is there no limit to that? You don't lose it if you're a 40% tax payer for example?

 

[drunkenmaster]

Dreadful woman. A wannabe Paxman but just comes across as rude and not very knowledgeable.

Is she the one who asked the murderers wife if she thought it was her fault for not having enough sex with him? She's a vile little woman, although she was right to rip into the little idiot of a lib dem protestor, who himself sounded like an utter pratt.

 

[JohnnyG]

Property prices need to reduce to realistic levels first, and then banks and building societies need to be willing to lend.

There's a couple of banks I can think of who should be made to lend.

 

[Merlin5]

The breaking news right now on sky is "Cabinet colleagues expect Brown to resign tonight or tomorrow"

 

[RDM]

It's only 20% of 3.5k, but an extra 70 quid a month for people on 10k (or above) isn't to be sniffed at certainly.

It is what the allowances should be in reality. Fiscal drag has probably been one of labours worst ideas to "help" the common man.

 

[meghatronic]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/interactive/2010/may/11/election-2010-coalition-nick-clegg

Nice!

 

[Narj]

Is there no limit to that? You don't lose it if you're a 40% tax payer for example?

I'd like to know this too.... that's an extra night out