Clegg 'ready for Labour coalition'

Aurora · Post by **Aurora** » 22 Jul 2012, 11:02

Press Association - 21/07/12

Nick Clegg would take the Liberal Democrats into a coalition after the next election which would put Ed Miliband in Number 10, he said.

The Deputy Prime Minister suggested his party would do its "duty" by working with Labour in the same way it is now in partnership with the Conservatives if voters fail to return an overall victor in 2015.

It comes after Business Secretary Vince Cable indicated he would be open to taking over leadership of the party, which has seen its popularity plummet since going into government with the Tories.

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"Hello, is that Ed? Can I be in your gang now please mate?"

DominicJ · Post by **DominicJ** » 22 Jul 2012, 11:19

Nothing really ground breaking in that announcement.....

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 22 Jul 2012, 11:41

It is now in the interests of the LibDems to stab the Tories in the back as we approach the next election. It would also be entirely morally justified.

DominicJ · Post by **DominicJ** » 22 Jul 2012, 12:02

UE
I must have missed where they ruled out forming a coalition with the Tories.....

All they are doing is confirming what every one should already have known.
And of course, heading off any "a vote for the liberals is a vote for thatcher none sense".

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 22 Jul 2012, 12:35

DominicJ wrote:UE
I must have missed where they ruled out forming a coalition with the Tories.....

Forming another coalition with the Tories is likely to be politically impossible. It seemed unlikely before this coalition was formed, but in practice it has turned out that while David Cameron and Nick Clegg are politically close enough to work together, the bulk of the their two parties are not. The truth is that they hate each other.

nexus · Post by **nexus** » 22 Jul 2012, 13:24

The truth is that they hate each other.

We hate their guts too........

DominicJ · Post by **DominicJ** » 22 Jul 2012, 13:36

So if the results are the same as they were last time, you think the limpdumbs will join a rainbow coalition of everyone except the Tories?

326 is all the Tories need for a majority.
Add in the DUP and they were on 314 compared to a lab/lib 315.

SNP and WNP for the win?
Thats easy, the Tories exist in neither Scotland or Wales, we can offer full independance, what does a Lib/Lab coalition offer?

Mean Mr Mustard · Post by **Mean Mr Mustard** » 22 Jul 2012, 13:56

Those three re-elected Lib Dem MPs will make all the difference to the balance of power.

Which actually resides with the multinationals, not any elected government anyway.

revdode · Post by **revdode** » 22 Jul 2012, 15:29

DominicJ wrote: SNP and WNP for the win?
Thats easy, the Tories exist in neither Scotland or Wales, we can offer full independance, what does a Lib/Lab coalition offer?

Interesting view. I've always said to my fellow countrymen who worry about independence that the SNP can't win this BUT the Tories could win it for them. Up until now I was working on the basis of a typical tory mess up, never occurred to me they would do it deliberately.

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 22 Jul 2012, 18:10

DominicJ wrote:So if the results are the same as they were last time, you think the limpdumbs will join a rainbow coalition of everyone except the Tories?

If there was an election now and it produced exactly the same result then I expect the result would be a minority tory government that wouldn't last very long, followed by another election.

Thats easy, the Tories exist in neither Scotland or Wales, we can offer full independance, what does a Lib/Lab coalition offer?

That's hilarious! Scotland doesn't want full independence. What the SNP wants is a fantasy - it wants full independence apart from using sterling and depending on the Bank of England as a lender of last resort. The SNP's project for independence turned into a joke at precisely the same time the eurozone turned into a joke.

What can a lib/lab coalition offer? In those circumstances, they could offer a progressive revolution in British politics. A lib/lab coalition with Ed Milliband as PM and Cable as Chancellor sounds about as perfect a result as I could have hoped for at any UK general election I've voted in. I suspect it would be viewed in a similar light north of the border, where both parties retain strong and historic power bases.

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 22 Jul 2012, 18:14

Mean Mr Mustard wrote:Those three re-elected Lib Dem MPs will make all the difference to the balance of power. Which actually resides with the multinationals, not any elected government anyway.

Only because the politicians are scared of challenging the corporations. The actual power lies with the politicians, if only they were inclined to use it.