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Originally Posted by Damien
The Tory "offer" was a joke! They did not promise a single thing, a inquiry into reform? We have had that already. Cameron seems to think that the sole purpose of the Lib Dems is too prop his party up. That's not what I voted for. The Tories have not got a majority, they need to conceed something.
I hope the Lib Dems reject him and force them to govern as a minority governent. Real half-arsed display of leadership there, he clearly doesn't have enough authority in his party to offer anything
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You seem to expect them to concede everything though and it doesn't work like that. Even if the Lib Dems join Labour they still don't have a majority and it would I suspect be extremely harmful to the Lib Dems to be seen to prop up Gordon Brown. Their position is not as strong as you seem to think it is.
At least it was genuine as opposed to Labour's newly discovered interest in electoral reform. Labour are quite simply
desperate to stay in power.
The Lib Dems (unofficially) seem to disagree with you, a source describing it as interesting and worth considering, not to mention that Cameron has never ruled out a PR referendum and the devil is in the detail and the negotiation. To give the Lib Dems everything straight away would be bad negotiation and the kind of desperation that Labour are reeking of right now.
It seemed to me to be a measured opening gambit in a weekend of negotiation, nothing more.
http://order-order.com/2010/05/07/th...tion-part-iii/ is interesting and a very nice thought actually, if it can take the best bits out of both parties
