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

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  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    I am not proposing anything; I am just taking a stab at what the plan must be.

    There have been several opinion polls on PR, and they have come out in favour. I should have thought the Tories on this board should have learnt the hard way that opinion polls are usually correct.

    On the other hand, this may leverage Cameron into conceding PR, and thus become PM. Who knows?
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Just a thought...

    Why doesnt Cameron form a minority goverment, then just call another election?

    He can the capitalise on the lack of a labour leader.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    abaxas wrote: »
    Just a thought...

    Why doesnt Cameron form a minority goverment, then just call another election?

    He can the capitalise on the lack of a labour leader.

    I guess it would be seen as games, again.

    Which it would be! Public are pretty sick of the games now.
  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    edited 10 May 2010 at 6:12PM
    abaxas wrote: »
    Just a thought...

    Why doesnt Cameron form a minority goverment, then just call another election?

    He can the capitalise on the lack of a labour leader.

    Brown would still be leader until September. If Labour and the Lib Dems cannot cobble together a deal, Cameron could still be a minority PM. It depends which can best command a majority in the Commons.

    If the public are indeed in favour of PR, perhaps a short term deal would be tolerated until proper modern democracy can be implemented.
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    abaxas wrote: »
    Why doesnt Cameron form a minority goverment, then just call another election?
    .

    Because, the queen will only appoint him as prime minister if he has the confidence of the house of commons, and right at the moment he doesn't.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • Somerset
    Somerset Posts: 3,636 Forumite
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    abaxas wrote: »
    You mean the whole PR has nothning to do with electoral reform, it's a mearly a ruse for people to gain more power?

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:That would be selfish, partisan and manipulative behaviour ............. oh hang on, it's politicians we're talking about.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    I guess it would be seen as games, again.

    Which it would be! Public are pretty sick of the games now.

    But that is politics.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    abaxas wrote: »
    But that is politics.

    It is, but I guess if you stand back, and let the others play the games, you may just come out on top.

    I got a feeling this whole hung parliament has SO much further to go yet.

    Many commentators thought we might have a statement today about the lib-con pact, as the markets would put the pressure on. Far from a statement about a pact, the game has just been flung open!
  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    It is, but I guess if you stand back, and let the others play the games, you may just come out on top.

    That is what Cameron would be hoping.
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    abaxas wrote: »
    Just a thought...

    Why doesnt Cameron form a minority goverment, then just call another election?

    He can the capitalise on the lack of a labour leader.

    Just a thought...

    How can you not have the foggiest idea of how the UK's political system works?
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
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