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Originally Posted by Derek S
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Silly you, you missed something from the quote, here, let me help:
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By far the juiciest bit of gossip is that on the evening of Monday, May 10, after the first talks had taken place between Labour and the Lib Dems, Paddy Ashdown frantically tried to get in touch with Tony Blair in the hope of persuading him to broker a deal. He eventually reached him by telephone at 3am on Tuesday morning only to be told that he thought it wasn’t in Labour’s interest to remain in office. “We need to go into Opposition,” he told the former Lib Dem leader.
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There, that's better, isn't it.
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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
I don't know about any of this. On the one hand, don't the Tories have a majority, slimmer than a supermodel though it is?
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No, the Tories don't have a majority, they simply have more seats than any of the other parties. That is why they had to form a coalition with another party.
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On the other hand, it's interesting how quickly opposing parties jumped into bed with each other, isn't it? Ostensibly their ideals and principles (don't laugh, I'm not being sarcastic...yet) are incompatible, so the whole coalition idea seems a bit hypocritical.
I still think Harold Saxon, a.k.a. the Master, had the right idea. He knew what to do with people who would so readily abandon their principles and jump on the band wagon: he gassed 'em all!
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There's still time.
