What will happen at the next general election?

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

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At the next general election what will happen to the two parties which make today's government?

Will the Tories still tell the population how they are better than the Liberal Democrats?
Will the Liberal Democrats tell the population that all the good ideas you saw in office were their design?
Or by that time will the two parties become so intertwined with each other they'll be inseperable and form a larger Liberal Conservative party?

Google doesn't seem to give me an answer I'm looking for. And I know there are a few politics aficionados on here who may know the answer. Is there even an answer to this sort of question?
 
Condems wont last till the next election. Its an alliance not a merger. So they will campaign separately still

The next election could be 2011 quite easily
 
maybe i'm mellowing as i get older, but i honestly think they will last the course and that atm they are doing a pretty good job all things considered
 
I don't know what will happen at the next election but I can tell you what will happen in the one after that; we'll vote Labour back in.
 
I personally believe we're going to see a lot of party shifting. Much like the Liberals and SDP merge, you'll have a Liberal Democrat split. Some realising they're not unlike the Tory's, so jump ship to the Tory's. Others will stay and reinforce a more liberal Liberal Ds. Others will be so screwed (& disenchanted with the coalition) they'll go to Labour. Similar could happen to the other main parties too.

However, it's only been 100 or so days, give them a chance! People calling it "condem" is childish to say the least.
 
To have an election would be political suicide for both LD's and Tories. They just can't do it now and lose face and power, now that they have it and have waited so long for it.
 
What Liberal Party.

they will either jump left or right depending on how safe their seat is and we will have two part poitics once more.
 
I think the Greens will gain a few % on their current single seat. UKIP will see somewhat more support with their future leader coming second in the constituency he's fighting, and the BNP will see a drop in support as immigration becomes less of an issue.

I don't like to focus on just the Big Three(tm) it gets all a bit boring.
 
Hopefully a hung Parliament again, which if the AV referendum passes, then it's more likely.

I much prefer the compromise policies of the coalition to what any single party would likely be putting into place.
 
Rich_L said:
Hopefully a hung Parliament again, which if the AV referendum passes, then it's more likely.

I much prefer the compromise policies of the coalition to what any single party would likely be putting into place.
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I agree, although I can see more changes if the AV referendum does pass in terms of party makeup, as there will be less incentive to stick together for the disparate parts of all the parties (right leaning conservatives vs the more liberal ones, Liberals vs social democrats, old labour vs new labour), which will make things even more interesting. Whether that will happen in the near or far future is open for debate though.

Hopefully the boundary issue will also be sorted then meaning Labour will no longer be massively over-represented for the same proportion of the vote as they are currently.
 
meghatronic said:
People calling it "condem" is childish to say the least.
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This is politics or party supporters at least, if the debate about the merits in a comparison of parties makes it above childish and petty then I start to wonder if we're actually still dealing with the same subject or if we've moved on and I've failed to notice.

In reference to the original question - there's no definitive answer yet and probably won't be until it happens so I'm not entirely surprised if Google doesn't provide the solution. We may be more likely to see relatively large movements of politicians compared to the normal over the next year or two between parties on the back of the coalition as they realise that they're more closely aligned with another parties politics and become less centrist but that's purely a guess.
 
I do not think there is political will to have an election for a while. Labour certainly is not in a position to call a vote of no confidence, and the tory-libdems have a alliance that is somehow working despite quite different aspirations.

It will be interesting to see what happens in the next major by-election, how hard will the alliance oppose each other? It is going to be hard for the libdems to define their traditional position whilst doing the opposite in parliament.

And labour still has to define a role for themselves in british politics. New labour defined themselves in part as “not the tories” and watching a couple of the party leader hopefuls they seem to be either defining themselves as “not the con-dems” or “not new labour”. I would much rather they started stating what they actually stood for as opposed to what the stand against.
 
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