[Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition
 

Your thoughts please. :)

Re: The New British Government: David Cameron is Prime Minister
 

I don't believe Her Majesty has invited him to form a Government yet, so he technically isn't the Prime Minister yet ;)

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Chris you've jumped the gun!!

If this turns out to be giant prank you will look a bit silly.....

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I rather doubt this coalition will last for long especially if they give the Liberal Democrats proportional representation as the carrot.

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I agree, I see another general election within the next 12 months fo sho

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How long was he in there to resign? Did he just chuck the letter on the desk and go?

If he had a cup of tea, it certainly did not touch the sides.

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To assume that the only course of action is to place cameron in power, although the most likely outcome is not necessarily the only outcome, to assume so in such an environment could be classed as a Premature Evaluation.

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Harriet Harman has her wish - she is (acting) Leader of the Labour Party.

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He probably called Her Majesty a 'Bigot' and was invited to leave :D :D

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... And if the Lib-Con deal falls through, we'll be having another election soon...

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My thoughts: Although I'm not a Tory, & do not particularly like the Tories, I think that this is the only outcome which could have worked. We need a stable Government with a healthy majority in the House of Commons: the only way we can get that with this month's election results is for a coalition between the Tories & the Lib Dems. A "Rainbow Alliance" or "Progressive Coalition" simply could not have worked.

Assuming a deal, I'll be voting yes in the AV referendum, and will be hoping for some other decent concessions to the Lib Dems.

It will also be nice to see the back of New Labour's ID Card scheme & over Orwellian nonsense...

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I read that wrong the first time! :shocked:

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Two words (cleaned up language)

We're screwed

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They have made no mention of offering PR to the Lib Dems, & I find it extremely unlikely that they would do so.

Both sides have said they want a stable long term coalition.

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cam and sam are at buck house

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Good job you didn't post too soon...

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It is what the Lib Dems want though so if it happens expect a split and an election shortly after.

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:rofl::rofl::rofl:

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No

We were screwed

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Anyone see the irony of the 'hooray' option in the poll being labour red?

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And the Tories have already said that the absolute furthest they would go is a referendum on AV, not PR.

The Tories would never go for PR. I think offering AV would have been hard enough for them to swallow.

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That's technically 3 words ;)

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I beg to differ - there may have to be some difficult decisions made, as the books have to balanced, but Cameron is a consensus politician (much to the disgust of some the more right-wing members of the Tory Party).

But I am sure you won't let facts spoil your prejudices.....

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No he tapped out an SMS and chucked a nokia at her maj :erm:

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The Mrs. reckons he kicked a corgi on the way out... ;)

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Agreement has been made but not signed off. Inheritance tax and marriage tax breaks are on hold. Whereas the tax-free allowance raised to £10,000 will be the 'priority'. Source: BBC

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I'm not even sure I want Conservative in. I only voted for them to get rid of Gordon.

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Excellent! :)

Oops.

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Nick Clegg should be PM, not Cameron, but then again, I do hate Cameron

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That would only help if the Tory candidate actually won the seat from the Labour candidate, if this did not happen then your vote made no difference.;)

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The trouble is that the tories have already broken the election promises, and thay ain't even been in office 20 mins, as they will have had to make changes to get support of the Lib Dems

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What was that you were saying about Brown earlier?

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Hardly counts, they didn't completely win the election so there you go.

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That's the kind of Gordon Brown style arithmetic that got us into this mess! :)

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Well according to Sirius they actually won.

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But they can't do that - it goes against some peoples' prejudices, and may cause them to reconsider their opinions.

That's so unfair! ;)

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If Labour had won the most seats - but not a majority - and if the Lib Dem bubble hadn't burst & its wins & vote share had reflected the earlier polls (maybe 100 seats, but with a higher share of the popular vote than Labour), it could perhaps have been conceivable for Clegg to be PM within a Lib-Lab coalition (as Clegg could have been seen to have more of a mandate than Brown).

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So what is it to be then peeps?

Minority or coalition?

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I think you will find that one won, rather than no-one won...:D

Could you point out which manifesto promises they have broken, please?

(as I don't remember anything in the manifesto about not raising the basic tax threshold to 10k)

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Coalition... but only if Clegg & co can persuade the Parliamentary Party + Federal Executive.

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Over 13 years Gordon sold off the best part of our gold reserves for peanuts, raided the pension funds and incurred the massive debts we're all now going to have to pay more tax to repay. He set up the flawed regulatory system which allowed the banks to run riot (and almost bring this country down) and built an economy based on credit. Just before it all went pear shaped and his massively remortaged house of cards collapsed, he doled out knighthoods to Fred the Shred, told the City that he wanted to 'encourage the risk takers' and predicted a 'golden age' for the City of London. In what way is he not culpable for the mess we're in and what now has to be done to stop UK PLC becoming Greece? :confused:

If the last Tories were so terrible why did he and Bliar copy so many of their 'flawed' ideas on the economy etc. rather than use their massive majority in successive parliaments to get it right and do it better?.. :confused:

If you're going to carry on blaming Thatcher et al for all our ills don't get upset if in 2023 the rest of us are still blaming Bliar and Brown for what went wrong on their watch and the tough action that had to be taken to put it right.

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At the end of the day who is now in power ???

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Mandelson is a ****! He's saying it is all down to them being in for 3 terms, not them being utter ****!

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But now GB has *actually* gone, does DC not have the option of going it alone?

Would that not be some coup or what after the laqst few days?

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I am just surprised it took 3 terms to get the public to realise that.

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They have just stated on sky news that David Cameron has excepted the request to be Prime Minister , Therefor Cameron is now in power :clap:

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Speelling issn't mi stongest subjeet wen unda stres :D

The Tories in there election will have promised xyz

But as they need the Lib Dems the promised xyz will have to change (may not be by much) but people voted them on the xyz promises.

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He could try to go it alone with a minority Government... and would then promptly fail to command the confidence of the House of Commons when the Queen's Speech got voted down due to the Tories not having a majority of seats... causing the Government to fall & a new election to be called.

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No, he didn't get the 326 seats to win outright.

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What time is Eastenders on?

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A friend of mine on Facebook said this

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He can go it alone, but he would be running a minority Government meaning that he wouldn't be sure of having a majority vote on issues going through Parliament.

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Dunno apparently it's been delayed due to Gordon Brown being hastily auditioned for the role of Manager of the Queen Vic... :D

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3 weeks from now the queen vic will be closed due to bankruptcy then

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You can see the massive increase in spending plus a reduction in taxes with which he tried to bribe the electorate in this attachment.

Source - The BBC / Institute for Fiscal Studies

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He's on his way home to no. 10

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Interesting to see that he's got no police outriders with him going back to No. 10.

I'm wondering if someone's dropped a clanger somewhere :erm:

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Yup and it'll all be Thatcher's fault!!!!!! :D :D

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Or like TB move into no 11.

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I bet the cleaners have been working double hard!

Spread bet on the number of broken Nokia parts found in the clean up anyone?

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Heard the Beeb commentator (Dimbleby?) saying that outriders are only provided to the PM in these circumstances but am not sure if he was just surmising.

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Odds on Brown having left a floater or an upper decker in number 10?

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Colalition it is then.

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Cameron confirms a collation, no smaller agreement, a collation. Yay!!!

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Is it me, or is SamCam actually quite hot?

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Liberal Conservative coalition! YES!! :clap: :woot:

co-operation along political lines is exactly what the country needs right now,imo.

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With the bump even hotter:D

Was that typed out loud:shocked:

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:D

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Let's just hope the coalition brings the best out in both parties rather than the worst.

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I wonder what Samuel Pepsy would have made of it all... :erm:

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well after Camerons little speach he had better make it work or he look a right burk

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Which means that about 60% of the voting population actually voted for one of the parties in power. Result!

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hear hear :)

I liked Cameron's speech,and I hope he and Clegg know just how much work lies ahead of them.

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my thounghts are don't give it to david cameron car't they not have anorther vote

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I reckon they should have Vince Cable as chancellor.

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We can talk about who won what but I think we all know who the real winners are in this election. The people who make those rosettes.

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Here Here

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i heard Gordon Browns in the market for a job in finance.

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I already don't like this new Prime Minister.
I'm getting it in the neck that the BBC has pushed this evenings Eastenders back until tomorrow from the missus

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Cameron hasn't confirmed a coalition. He said it is his aim to have a coalition. It still requires LD agreement...

I actually liked his speech. "A proper & full coalition...put aside party differences for the common good & the national interest..."

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'fraid so... :p:

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I don't like this new prime minister, I can't ring or text anyone cause of him!

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car't we not have another vote and this time let every 1 vote

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I heard before the election they were thinking of changing chancellor to Ken Clarke as he served as chancellor after the last recession in the early 90s. during his spell he managed to halve the budget deficit while at the same time reducing inflation, unemployment and the basic rate of tax from 25p to 23p.

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LOL

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Osborne confirmed as chancellor

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Could this be a new era of Brand New Politics? Let's hope so. I did like some of the Lib Dems policies.

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From the BBC Live coverage web page

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I wish he'd gone 3 years ago.. :D

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Want to know the deal darn it!

Fixed four year terms. No cut in Inheritance tax or Marriage tax but tax free allowance raised.

Allow we know so far.

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David Laws seem depressed and, in answer to the collation, that there were many ways to do that. Eeeeek.

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Clegg will be Deputy PM - that way he can share both the kudos and the blame... :D

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Ashdown as Defense security. If true? Immense!!
Clegg as Deputy PM? Huge Success for him if true!

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Yes, meaningful appointments that show that they want the new alliance to work and last.

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Ashdown will be a huge boost to the cabinet if you ask me!

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Well I guess Cameron's logic is that Clegg can't be as useless in the role as Prescott was... :D

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If that is true, when DC takes time off for his new arrival NC will be running the country.

Who would have thought that a Lib Dem could be running this country

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See I thought the idea was that whenever the criticism got too much the respective PMs would bugger off on holiday leaving Prescott in charge as a warning!

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I think you're probably right there.. :D

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What a novel concept, have someone running something that they've had first hand experience of(Paddy was a member of the Special Boat Service).

Edit: Sorry, looks as though he was a Royal Marine, sure I read somewhere that he was in the SBS.

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You are right. He was in the RM, Special Boat Service .

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So if DC had an "accident" would NC be PM?

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No


According to Wikipedia...

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BBC:

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As I voted Labour, at least I can say if the Tory/Lib Dems screw up and make a bigger mess of things at least I can say I didn't vote them in. And if they do a better job and make things better then at least it'll be a bonus. So win / win either way.:erm: :disturbd: :nutter: :D