[Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition

[Neil22]

Originally Posted by Mick

Like hell it is - It's two colours and that is all and damn fine colours they are.



Rubbish - This new coalition has plenty of substance. There is no way the Libs should have aligned themselves with the loser party that is Labour.

This is a new era of politics - Now useless Labour lost the election, they got 2 million fewer votes than the Tories so the people have spoken - now get over it already.

Labour landslide within 12 months?? Remember you heard it here first.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Neil22

Labour landslide within 12 months?? Remember you heard it here first.

Dream on

Originally Posted by Neil22

Labour landslide within 12 months?? Remember you heard it here first.

Only if they all go skiing, and then all fall over at the same time.

[slowcoach]

Originally Posted by Neil22

Labour landslide within 12 months?? Remember you heard it here first.

You are forgetting that many people enjoy pain.

Sadly, any Government that comes in after Labour has had its way with the country is like a dentist preparing to perform root canal treatment. Unpleasant but necessary. But then Labour has spent more than a decade feeding us sugary snacks.

[Derek]

Some of the noises coming from Whitehall are pretty ominous

He told the newspaper: "We are finding all sorts of skeletons in various cupboards and all sorts of decisions taken at the last minute.

"By the end, the previous government was totally irresponsible and has left this country with absolutely terrible public finance."

The more that comes out shows just how deeply useless labour were but some will still claim they did a good job and should still be in charge.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Neil22

Labour landslide within 12 months?? Remember you heard it here first.

You wish.

[Angua]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

So they knew they were going to lose and pursued a "scorched earth" policy.

Explains why they offered the Lib Dems nothing for a coalition. They really didn't want the responsibility.

Originally Posted by Neil22

Labour landslide within 12 months?? Remember you heard it here first.

I think it is has seriously escaped your attention, either that or you are just plain ignorant - the majority of people don't want Labour in power, after 13 years they were utterly useless and after leading this country into financial chaos and even now we are learning more so since they were dumped by the British Electorate last week.

Now seriously, you and a few others seriously need to get over the fact that the useless Labour party, rightly lost the fight, the best two, now Tories and Lib dems, are in place to fix and tidy up Labour's mess and what a horrible mess that has been left.

[Ignitionnet]

Damn Liberal Tories, trying to reduce inequality in pay in the public services as well as introducing an Office for Budgetary Responsibility to introduce more checks and balances along with additional transparency on government spending.

One target for this is Ofcom, whose CEO is rather well compensated.

I am sure this is nothing at all to do with these parts of his biography as linked above:

Ed was previously Senior Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister (Tony Blair) for Media, telecoms, the internet and e‑govt and Controller of Corporate Strategy at the BBC.

He has also worked in consulting at London Economics Ltd, as an advisor to Gordon Brown MP and began his career as a researcher with Diverse Production Ltd where he worked on programmes for Channel 4.

If you wonder why Ofcom is described as the most New Labour of all their Quangos you don't need to look much past that.

Labour back in in twelve months ha ha ha ha ha ha more chance of snowballs in hell and defo after all the facts come out about everything they have done which we are nowhere near to finding out yet. They knew damn well they were going to lose and true to form spat out the dummy doing as much damage as they could before they were kicked out knowing that the more damage they did the more hurt anyone that follwed them was going to have to do and thus become hated more quickly. I totally despise what labour did and stood for for thirteen years and the only people i can see that would have undying loyalty to them are either daft or lying to provoke an argument on here and other places because if you cannot see the damage they did it is because you don't want to not because there isn't plenty of evidence of it.

[danielf]

Meanwhile, in a bid to improve transparency, strengthen democracy and save shedloads of cash by reducing government, LibCon plan to create 100 new peers.

To be fair to them, they did announce this off the bat - the intention is to alter the composition of the Lords so it is broadly proportional with the recent election results. You can't, at the moment, simply sack peers for reasons of proportionality, so the only solution is to create (lots of) new ones.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Chris

To be fair to them, they did announce this off the bat - the intention is to alter the composition of the Lords so it is broadly proportional with the recent election results. You can't, at the moment, simply sack peers for reasons of proportionality, so the only solution is to create (lots of) new ones.

I'm alright with this if it is a step towards reforming the Lords to an elected chamber. If the idea is simply to create a majority so difficult legislation can be pushed through, it is just wrong and undemocratic, whatever the history of the Lords.

[nomadking]

Labour left some useful info for the incoming Government.

Link

Liberal Democrat David Laws, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said the task ahead was "colossal" and that Labour had left the public finances in an "unacceptable" state.
The reductions would amount to about 1% of government spending, he added.
Mr Laws said his predecessor, Liam Byrne, had left him a letter saying simply: "Dear chief secretary, There's no money left."