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Originally Posted by Damien
Surely it's unwise for him to support a party without knowing the results, I shall imagine he will go for the party with the bigger mandate.
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Depends what you call a mandate - last time out the Tories got lots more votes but a lot less seats.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Given the total lack of any real and achievable commitment on pretty much anything from the other two I guess he felt he needed to follow.
This is the problem really, the Labour campaign and manifesto is so full of BS that attempts to introduce commitments and facts to the equation just don't get you elected as you're against someone promising the earth and an electorate a large proportion of which are gullible enough to believe it. This is also largely the Tories' fault as they aren't doing enough to call BS on Labour's policies instead trying to be positive and take the moral high ground, which given they're against the Dark Lord isn't really going to work.
I honestly don't see how he could support Cameron looking at the massive gulf between them. I struggle to reconcile his far more positive attitude to Europe along with socialist economic policies with Conservative points of view.
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I tend to agree, in which case people who support that view will see his unwillingness to say so as a rather cynical tactic. I really do think Clegg's in between a rock and a hard place on this and may wind up putting off a lot of potential voters due to his lack of clarity on such a major issue.