Important policies

Generali

If you were a minority party negotiating with Lab or Cons to support them in power which do you think would be the most important to you?

Fox hunting? NHS? Educashun? Environment? The massive black hole in the middle of the Government's finances that will suck you all in?

Just wondering, like you do.

abaxas

Maybe an overhaul of the tax system is needed?

No-one really understand it all, so that is ripe for change.

Maybe the Lib Dems could play a blinder here? 10k is a little large, but I'm sure it;'s negociable.

PhylPho

Actually, as the electorate has been the real minority party in the UK for too long, your question isn't that rhetorical. As to the answer. . . something about the black hole the recently defunct Government liked to pretend was nowhere as deep nor remotely connected with it?

(Though I still loathe fox hunters.)

Thrugelmir

Has to be the economy and the budget deficit.

As more than likely we'll have another election in 9 -18 months. Other matters can be put on the back burner.

From a Labour perspective if the Con\Lib alliance works in the short term. Then a new Labour administration would be sunk at the next election.

fc123

Generali wrote: »

If you were a minority party negotiating with Lab or Cons to support them in power which do you think would be the most important to you?

Fox hunting? NHS? Educashun? Environment? The massive black hole in the middle of the Government's finances that will suck you all in?

Just wondering, like you do.

The Massive Black Hole for me and how it's dealt with.

I am quite 'happy' (given the situation) with the outcome IF LibDems can compromise with the Conservatives.
What will wind me up is bickering over detail and a refusal to compromise on certain things.

Compromise is my middle name and I recommend it as it can enhance lifestyle choices and outcomes, even if it doesn't seem so at the time of the compromise.

Clegg and Cameron both seem, to me, like decent types so I am now feeling quite comfortable with the outcome. A full on Tory set up scared me a little bit (even though they probably have the most beneficial set up for my own circumstances) and I am now 'into' politics for the first time since the 90's.

fc123

abaxas wrote: »

Maybe an overhaul of the tax system is needed?

No-one really understand it all, so that is ripe for change.

Maybe the Lib Dems could play a blinder here? 10k is a little large, but I'm sure it;'s negociable.

1Ok isn't large at all......make it 15k and get rid of all the addons with tax credits etc.

PhylPho

abaxas wrote: »

Maybe an overhaul of the tax system is needed?

No-one really understand it all, so that is ripe for change.

Maybe the Lib Dems could play a blinder here? 10k is a little large, but I'm sure it;'s negociable.

10k isn't a little large. Any Government in pursuit of an equitable Society would always seek to ensure that the poorest pay the least tax. Labour didn't do so because if you're going to create a Client State, then it's best to institute a "credits" system that may cost £billions to administer but will always remind the recipients just how lucky they are to be getting back that which they should never have paid from a benevolent political master to whom everything is owed. Including, their votes.

purch

which do you think would be the most important to you?

Some form of electoral reform, that would get you a level of representation in the future more in line with your votes !!!

lostinrates

Important issues for me?

sustainability.

Of finance, of environment, of jobs, of facilities, of lifestyles, of standards.

Rochdale_Pioneers

For the LibDems? They HAVE to have PR. If after Cleggmania they can't progress under FPTP, they never will. They can get PR either via a Lab coalition, or by having the opposition majority ramrod it past a Tory minority government.

Either way he needs PR or his party is dead. Not that his party would pass any deal that didn't deliver PR so the idea of a Lib Con coalition is I'm afraid a non-starter when you remember that LibDem party constitution.

FATBALLZ

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

For the LibDems? They HAVE to have PR. If after Cleggmania they can't progress under FPTP, they never will. They can get PR either via a Lab coalition, or by having the opposition majority ramrod it past a Tory minority government.

Either way he needs PR or his party is dead. Not that his party would pass any deal that didn't deliver PR so the idea of a Lib Con coalition is I'm afraid a non-starter when you remember that LibDem party constitution.

Since Labour + Lib dem is still a minority, why do you think PR can be forced through - do any party apart from the Lib dems actually want PR? As unless pretty much all MPs not in the Tory party want/benefit from it it won't happen.