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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Well if the opinion polls are to be believed and i am not sure they should looks like were heading for a hung parliament with labour and the lib dems ready to do a deal. Yes yes i know clegg keeps denying it but both he and GB have done the cosying up bit a few tiomes quickly followed by attacks almost to make it look like there is no common ground. I would much rather one party had the majority even if that party was labour then enter into bargaining positions in a hung election.
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It seems Brown will go unless Labour are the majority party. Anything else and he will be gone with someone else leading an possible collation. There does seem to be geniune hostility with Brown/Lib-Dems than Labour/Lib-Dems, not sure where you get the impression that they are close.
The Liberal Democrats seem to be more open to a deal with the Conservatives, if they get the most votes, than Labour but I think voting reform will be the key issue, if Labour offer a referendum on that then that may well be enough.
I am quite happy with a hung parliament. If it is the case that the Tories have not done enough to convince people to award them a majority then they will have to compromise or be sidelined. There is nothing wrong with such a deal because it would mean that at least 50% of the electorate will see the people they voted for wield some kind of influence to get things done. Rather than 30-37% of people deciding who should govern the entire electorate.
We might have seen a lot fewer bad bills passed if we had such a system in the last Parliament.