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lib are talking to labour please tell me it's not so

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  • Grumpycupple
    Grumpycupple Posts: 279 Forumite
    ninky wrote: »
    many will have already defected.....

    I know I have :( Roll on next year with the Scottish elections.
    Then God looked over all he had made, and said, "I can see idiots from my house".

    Noam Chromsky "There's nothing wrong with picking the lesser of two evils"...you end up with less evil.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    it could be a very good move by Labour - you never know...

    at least people can blame Labour if the Tories get it all wrong and destroy the economy.

    Scorched earth policy for 2 years.

    Then 3 years to woo the electorate.
  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    If the Lib Dems move to the centre right, perhaps the centre-right vote will split?

    A few other points spring to mind if there is a formal coalition.

    There should be no anti-Europe tomfoolery - UKIP may benefit.

    The £6bn of cuts proposed by the Tories is actually relatively modest - I expect the Lib Dems to go along with it.

    There will be a lot of distrust between them! - Obviously!
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • ninky_2
    ninky_2 Posts: 5,872 Forumite
    lib dem mps are having a meeting this evening and they have to reach a vote of 75 percent in favour to go ahead with a coalition apparently. otherwise they have to have a members meeting....
    Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    ninky wrote: »
    lib dem mps are having a meeting this evening and they have to reach a vote of 75 percent in favour to go ahead with a coalition apparently. otherwise they have to have a members meeting....

    From what I am reading it is the one they want the most, it is only the old guard digging their feet in.

    Lets face it, it is this or nothing for them now really.
  • Pete111
    Pete111 Posts: 5,333 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    BBC getting desparate in their coverage. Just watched a slow motion clip of Andy Burnham walking into number 10.

    Compelling stuff.
    Go round the green binbags. Turn right at the mouldy George Elliot, forward, forward, and turn left....at the dead badger
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    FTSE gained around 40 points on the news that no lib / lab coalition was going ahead.

    Pound rose nearly 1.5 cents
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    FTSE gained around 40 points on the news that no lib / lab coalition was going ahead.

    Pound rose nearly 1.5 cents

    £ shot up also
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    Sorry GD, missed your bottom bit but thought I would give you a graph (not not the graph :))
  • Jonbvn
    Jonbvn Posts: 5,562 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    FTSE gained around 40 points on the news that no lib / lab coalition was going ahead.

    Pound rose nearly 1.5 cents

    I would be still be happy if sterling was 1:1 vs the $ and all this BS was over.
    In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:
  • ninky_2
    ninky_2 Posts: 5,872 Forumite
    Pete111 wrote: »
    BBC getting desparate in their coverage. Just watched a slow motion clip of Andy Burnham walking into number 10.

    Compelling stuff.

    the energy levels are definitely flagging amoungst all the pundits as they await the money shot. think some hung parliament viagra might be needed. andy boulton shamed himself up and just saw a bbc reporter ask an elderly lib dem peer whose name he got wrong if he felt a coalition coming in his "waters".....to which the lib dem peer replied "well you seem to know more about my waters than i do"
    Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron
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