Poll: *** 2010 General Election Result & Discussion ***
- Thread starter Cosimo
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my point is as a life long libdem voter and member of the party, and considering most of their campaigning is to keep the tories out and take their posh seats, its a disgrace that they are now jumping into bed with posh toff boy and his bunch of ****s.
Any coalition deal has to be passed by two thirds of the parliamentary members and federal committee of the libdems, thats not going to be easy with the anti tory hardline members of these committees.
I didnt vote lib dem to prop up a tory party that failed to win an election against the shoddy labour party, both the tories and the libdems are politically miles apart in ideology
SHOCKING!
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OOh lectern...
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Great lets hope it eases the pain of a 6p income tax hike and Vat Hike hey?
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Not really, up until yesteday a "rainbow coalition" was very much an option. Ed Balls messed that one up so the Lib-Dems went back to the tories.
Nah no chance, that was just used by the LibDems to wring out some further concessions, I don't think it was ever realistically an option.
Put it this way, as was mentioned the LD's have had a number of meetings, the Tories have had a number of meetings, the Labour MPs haven't had anything of the sort - if it was a serious suggestion it would have been far more considered than a few rumours and Clegg spending 15 minutes on the phone to GB.
Put it this way, as was mentioned the LD's have had a number of meetings, the Tories have had a number of meetings, the Labour MPs haven't had anything of the sort - if it was a serious suggestion it would have been far more considered than a few rumours and Clegg spending 15 minutes on the phone to GB.
The Tory hating Lib Dems need to realise that the country comes first and this coalition is very much primarily in the countries best interest. These two parties are best placed to try and turn things around for us after thirteen years of Labour waste and financial suicide.
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Actually, the 'sources' told BBC and Sky News that is was David Milliband that pressed too hard in the negotiations. Where have you heard it was Ed Balls?
It would certainly have been unstable as anything but many lib-dems favored the Labour party.
Sky were reporting that as Chief negotiator for the Labour party he wouldn't give any ground on the Labour Manifesto.
Absolutly, I would've fallen off my chair if that policy was adopted, I doubt the LD's really care much about it, after all they can now say that it's up to the Tories to sort the problem of illegal immigration as they rejected their proposal. Win-win pretty much.
LOLSky - as if that would be the case.
People go - oh look, hung Parliaments aren't as disastrous as the Tories made them out to be, maybe we should look at a more proportional system of governance?
For size? Not even close, I think there are 4 or 5 threads in the PC Games forum which have over twice the number of posts as this one.
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Who honestly put him on the negotiation team let alone lead it? Seriously.
Seriously I am going to join Alastair Campbell and start shouting at Adam Boulton in a minute if he says any more "er"s. Driving me nuts, he literally said about 8 in a sentence a minute ago, was like "he er will er be er coming er out er in a er minute"
