Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Politics
Original poster

Depressed lefty red-eye thread

1003 replies

policywonk · 07/05/2010 02:21

hello

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Prolesworth · 07/05/2010 12:10

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

Beachcomber · 07/05/2010 12:02

Aaah will be out at 2.30pm for Hameron's statement.

First time I've been disappointed to miss him.

Heathcliffscathy · 07/05/2010 12:02

onebat a summary:

no one has majority (you knew that)

cons have biggest gains/seats

clegg saying 'cons need to TRY to form govt in national interest' alongside 'electoral system broken reform is a must'

senior cons cross with cameron and saying no way to electoral reform.

tories will fail therefore to form effective govt.

big win last night was fight for electoral reform.

huzzah!

Nymphadora · 07/05/2010 12:02

new one

Disenchanted3 · 07/05/2010 12:00

HYPOTHETICALLY...

If after all this they said, right vota again tomorrow, what do you think would happen?

Would people vote the same? Would more people vote?

onebatonevote · 07/05/2010 12:00

Hellooooo.
I have some catching up to do. This all just gets more and more Looking-Glass like though, doesn't it?

motherinferior · 07/05/2010 11:59

Prolesworth, I am about to go and meet a friend for a soothing South Indian lunch. I fear that image will not allow it to settle.

auberginesrus · 07/05/2010 11:59

PMSL at naughty boy Hameron and prospect of Tories imploding

leavingonajetplane · 07/05/2010 11:57

Although still confused about what exactly to hope for now. Its hard to work out how best this short-lived government should go, in order to ensure that longterm, things go in right direction. again.

jennylindinha · 07/05/2010 11:56

"bags of malice" - snort!

Prolesworth · 07/05/2010 11:55

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

DavidHameron · 07/05/2010 11:54

I am NOT a naughty boy, I am Spartacus.

Beachcomber · 07/05/2010 11:54

ooh unrest in the Tories, I bet Hameron is shitting himself.

Heathcliffscathy · 07/05/2010 11:53

come out come out senior tory grandee wherever you are....

nearlytoolate · 07/05/2010 11:53

there is also a problem with Lib/Lab coalition - they don't have an overall majority without another partner. So I think Clegg's calculation absolutely correct.

wubblybubbly · 07/05/2010 11:52

Indeed, it seems Hameron is not the tory messiah, he's a very naughty boy

sallyJayGorce · 07/05/2010 11:51

Boris actually LOVED Maggie. Not just her politics. He loved her as a woman. Men like hime like a feisty bit of rough like her.

VoteRedLentil · 07/05/2010 11:51

The difference between AV (good) and (AV+)PR is nicely explained here.

Yes, Johnson was favouring AV+ last night. It's the system here in Ireland and it is not as transparent or as democratic in my view as AV. I'll get a t-shirt printed with 'I agree with Jack Straw'

leavingonajetplane · 07/05/2010 11:51

Saw and enjoyed Sophable. Love to be a fly on the wall of the Tory discussions.

That sounded very promising

theyoungvisiter · 07/05/2010 11:51

would Clegg lose a referendum on PR?

I think most people are fairly pro some form of PR - maybe not straight PR but perhaps AV or enhanced AV or whatever they call it.

Heathcliffscathy · 07/05/2010 11:51

i adore the thought of puce faced tory grandees sputtering that cameron was too leftist during the campaign!

love it.

Disenchanted3 · 07/05/2010 11:50

So the tories don't want a 're-vote' (is that what an electoral reform is?)

I'm really sorry about my novice questions, I'm genuinly enthralled but lack the knowledge

nearlytoolate · 07/05/2010 11:50

inmyhead you are forgetting that Cameron alone can't agree this - see what the Tory MPs are saying...
Tbh anything could happen.
I think I will go and have some lunch now...

Nymphadora · 07/05/2010 11:50

Hehehehe at the Tories falling out when they actually have a chance!

Heathcliffscathy · 07/05/2010 11:49

did any of you clock what andrew neil said?

not much chance of a lib/con coalition then.

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

Join Mumsnet Log In
This thread is not accepting new messages.
Swipe left for the next trending thread