Put your money where your mouth is.....who will be PM?

[poo at Paul's]

Don said:

poo at Paul's said:

Miliband. Cable as Chancer, er Chancellor

That presumes a Lib/Lab alliance.

Do you think the electorate would forgive Cleggy for letting Labour stay in power? Don't think so. And the difficulty of getting anything past the Tories 305(6) seats AT ALL would mean an election soon and that isn't going to favour the Lib Dems who don't have access to the Tories reserves of campaign funds.

Maybe, but who will it be easier for the Liberals to blame when it all goes tits up....Torys or NuLabia and it's gurning chimps?

[Zod]

chimster said:

TankRizzo said:

The Libs and Cons will come up with some sort of agreement, Cameron will be PM.

Quite how long the arrangement will last though is anyone's guess...I still think they will go to the country again before the year is out.

This.....

the time to go to the country is before Labour has a new leader in place.

[Balmoral Green]

I've got a very bad feeling about all this.

[youngsyr]

Castrol Craig said:

lib dem negotiating team say clegg should listen more to labour proposals.

winky is going to get his way here.

I can't see any way that can happen - on top of all the other arguments against it, the fundamental maths do not work. A Lib/Lab pact simply wouldn't have enough seats to be able to ensure they could pass any bills and the resultant vote of confidence.

No-one in their right mind would enter into a coalition with Labour knowing that it could fall at the first hurdle.

[youngsyr]

anonymous said:

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I'm willing to bet a Mars Bar that the LibDems won't do it even as a last resort.

There is absolutely no upside to it for them, they'll be entering into an incredibly unpopular alliance of losers that won't last long enough for any of their policies to be put in place and that will cover them in Labour's shte when it does goes pop.

[Mattt]

Zod said:

chimster said:

TankRizzo said:

The Libs and Cons will come up with some sort of agreement, Cameron will be PM.

Quite how long the arrangement will last though is anyone's guess...I still think they will go to the country again before the year is out.

This.....

the time to go to the country is before Labour has a new leader in place.

My theory:

1) Con/Lib pact - Cameron PM for around a year, makes unpopular but necessary changes to public spending and taxation

2) Election votes back in Labour as 'things were much better then' (if you ignore the consequences)

[Castrol Craig]

might as well all say millipede now.

[The real Apache]

If anyone needs me I'll be in trap 3........dangling from a rope

[Mario149]

Mattt said:

Zod said:

chimster said:

TankRizzo said:

The Libs and Cons will come up with some sort of agreement, Cameron will be PM.

Quite how long the arrangement will last though is anyone's guess...I still think they will go to the country again before the year is out.

This.....

the time to go to the country is before Labour has a new leader in place.

My theory:

1) Con/Lib pact - Cameron PM for around a year, makes unpopular but necessary changes to public spending and taxation

2) Election votes back in Labour as 'things were much better then' (if you ignore the consequences)

I reckon that's not far off. Cameron will do the hard but necessary stuff for about 2-3 years, take all the crap for it, there'll be an election just as things are starting to get better, shiny new Labour leader pledges spending increases (at the risk of the recovering economy), stupid people buy into it and vote NuNuLab, debt starts increasing again for another Parliament until the electorate are shown AGAIN that Lab can't get it right, Conservatives finally in for a good stint starting in 2018/9.

That's my pessimistic view

[Don]

poo at Paul's said:

Don said:

poo at Paul's said:

Miliband. Cable as Chancer, er Chancellor

That presumes a Lib/Lab alliance.

Do you think the electorate would forgive Cleggy for letting Labour stay in power? Don't think so. And the difficulty of getting anything past the Tories 305(6) seats AT ALL would mean an election soon and that isn't going to favour the Lib Dems who don't have access to the Tories reserves of campaign funds.

Maybe, but who will it be easier for the Liberals to blame when it all goes tits up....Torys or NuLabia and it's gurning chimps?

Looks like Clegg is really considering the Lib/Lab thing. I reckon it won't end well for him.