A positive election post

Christ I hope so. If he falls for Brown's "we'll hold a PR referendum
immediately" bullshit again I'll scream. Hope he does it quickly too to
stop the FTSE graph looking like a rollercoaster (shoots down at
opening, back up after Clegg's speech, back down again after Brown's
speech, back up again after Cameron's speech).

 

I think not. Electoral reform is being swept under the carpet ^W^W^W^W
going to a committee of inquiry.

 

I suspect not. Cameron just made it clear that immigration isn't up for
discussion, nor is trident, and the electoral reform issue will be yet
another review a la Jenkins. Ming didn't seem particularly impressed
when interviewed just now.

 

Depends who's making it & how. E.g. foreign speculators trashing the
pound isn't a good thing.

 

I thought Trident a stupid idea but having heard alternative arguments maybe
not. So scrap some other part of the military budget and furriner aid to
pay for it.

 

Heh, I've just read a guy accusing Apple of delibereately witholding
the GBP and EUR pricing for the iPad to see what the outcome of the UK
election would be, and that the dipping markets were an indicator of
this.

*riiiiiight*.

 

I understand that Cameron was hamstrung on his offer by the shadow
cabinet, who squashed any idea of further compromise.

 

Not unlike the split in the last few Dutch elections, which have led to
coalition governments.

Next election is June 9th, to re-establish government after the recent
collapse.

 

I can't see the LD membership stomaching the compromise either tbh. It'd
be nothing short of a betrayal.

 

They have (or at least should have) bigger concerns, but today's
sterling drops are mainly down to uncertainty over the election result.

 

The guy I'm buying a house tells me he scored 10k this morning betting on
this.
Allright for some.

 

Less of a betrayal than putting Labour back in though surely? If the
LDs are that much in favour of PR, supporting a party that got 2
million fewer votes than another would seem to be a tad hypocritical.

 

I shall watch A Very British Coup tonight. It just finished downloading.

 

Labour and Lib Dems have far more in common than Conservatives and Lib
Dems. The offer from Cameron basically says "we have a few things in
common, so if you agree to abandon your core principles we can work
together". The offer from Brown says "we'll give you what you want".

My guess would be LDs rebuff Tory offer, negotiate with Labour, accept
offer of electoral reform but insist on change of leadership. I'd find
that almost acceptable, frankly, the LDs would be a moderating presence
in an otherwise Labour cabinet, and best of all it'd send the Tories
batshit crazy.

 

Speak for yourself. I sit somewhere half-and-half between LD & Tory, with
very little in common with Labour.

 

The answer to Cameron saying "Gordon Brown has never won an election as
leader" is "neither have you".

 

You can't possibly know that. Some/many/most LD voters may have voted
that way because they wanted the policies that most closely match the
Tories, not the ones that match Labour.

 

Reverting to type, I see, Monsieur The Cow.

 

Back to the old LibLab pact then, what?

 

But they'd be insane to believe Labour will do what they say,
especially after the '97 PR referendum promise that never happened. At
least the Tories are being honest about it.