The UK election thread

[RuleBritannia]

My politics myth of the week (other than the unelected Prime Minister nonsense)?

It has to be: "forming a strong and stable government in the national interest". It's bullshit on two counts.

1. There is no "national interest", individuals have their own interests.

2. The is no possible coalition, or otherwise, that will be stable. Lib/Lab don't have the numbers, Lib/Con don't agree on any policies and Tory minority would get nothing through parliament.

[Elessarina]

Tories almost have no chance of forming govt i'm so happy.

From what i have observed it's Lib-Lab that has no chance of forming a government.. it seems a Lib-Con coalition is likely. A lot of labour people have started to speak out about how they DO NOT want a coalition which seems to me to be an indication of what is about to happen..

[Elessarina]

I'm betting on an announcement later today of a Lib-Con coalition agreement

[RuleBritannia]

I'm betting on an announcement later today of a Lib-Con coalition agreement

I'm betting on the coalition falling apart before the end of the year.

[Elessarina]

I'm betting on an announcement later today of a Lib-Con coalition agreement

I'm betting on the coalition falling apart before the end of the year.

October 14th the next election will be

[RuleBritannia]

Lib/Lab talks are over and luggage has been leaving No. 10.

[Elessarina]

Gordon is going to see her majesty tomorrow...

[klr]

Gordon is going to see her majesty tomorrow...

Deal ... or no deal?

[RuleBritannia]

Gordon is going to see her majesty tomorrow...

Deal ... or no deal?

Hello... It's the banker, he says thanks for taking the fall for the financial crisis...

[Geoff]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZ86GYo ... re=related[/youtube]

[Elessarina]

Gordon is going to see her majesty tomorrow...

Deal ... or no deal?

No deal.. it's pretty obvious. All day a lot of labour MPs have been spouting off that there could be no workable deal with other parties and that Labour should accept defeat etc.

It's been trickling out bit by bit all day.

Apparently Labour didn't offer any deal with the lib dems just offered their manifesto the tories have actually made concessions.

Bookmakers have stopped taking bets on the new UK government and 10 Downing Street has luggage being taken out the back

[klr]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZ86GYo ... re=related[/youtube]

I was waiting for someone to post that!

Gordon is going to see her majesty tomorrow...

Deal ... or no deal?

No deal.. it's pretty obvious. All day a lot of labour MPs have been spouting off that there could be no workable deal with other parties and that Labour should accept defeat etc.

It's been trickling out bit by bit all day.

Apparently Labour didn't offer any deal with the lib dems just offered their manifesto the tories have actually made concessions.

Bookmakers have stopped taking bets on the new UK government and 10 Downing Street has luggage being taken out the back

Yes, I think it's no deal (and have done for some time). But until we see white smoke and habemus Papam PM ...

[Elessarina]

The white smoke is coming out of Gordon's ears

[klr]

Mixed signals from this BBC feed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/liveevent/

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1648: The editor of the Spectator magazine, Fraser Nelson, tweets: Senior Tories say most likely outcome is minority government, with Lib Dems in a confidence-and-supply deal.

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1714: Conservative blogger Tim Montgomerie expects David Cameron to be in Number 10 tomorrow. He writes: "The Tories are optimistic that they'll get an agreement to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats rather than support for a minority government. They think this will be most stable government possible. Clegg will be Deputy Prime Minister.
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[RuleBritannia]

Apparently the Lib Dems are meeting tonight (19:30) to vote on the coalition deal. They need 75% of their 57 MPs to agree and 75% of the Federal Executive.