Anxious Conservatives thread!

[VicToryA]

As the lefties have one, we need one too.

I have everything crossed for them to win, by however small a margin, and red wine and arsenic ready in case they lose...

I daren't stay up as my nerves can't take it. I just desperately want to wake up to a Conservative government tomorrow morning.

Lefties, please don't intrude. I have deliberately started this thread so as not to pester you on your anxious thread. It feels mean and unnecessary to tell you why you are wrong on your own thread.

Suspect it is just senior Euro-sceptics who are firing a warning shot to Cameron not to gove away too much to Nick Clegg on Europe.

Cartoose I know, very strange. I wonder if it would be David Davies, he has never got over losing the leadership election!

Bloody stupid of him IMO, it's too soon for party infighting.

Do the Cons and Lib Dems have similiar proposals to reduce the budget deficit?

I think the Lib Dems and Tories want to reduce the deficit but different ideas on how to do it.

Labour are seriously delusional, did anyone else see HH's husband on BBC just now?

I feel so angry at people who voted seeking a Hung Parliament.

Justabout - If Cameron refuses to go along with electoral reform thing, Lib Dems have no alternaitve but to suck it up as otherwise he will be seen to be holding the country to ransom at a time when we desperately need a rudder.

Labour and Lib Dems together still don't create a majority.

Why do you think people voted for a hung parliament, Sweedes? Judging by the figures, the Conservative share of the vote (and Labour's and Lib Dem's) looks like the obvious outcome 3 elections after a massive Labour landslide. Natural wastage towards the Conservatives, with people voting for their "natural" parties. The Conservatives swung it by "rocking their vote" (to coin an American phrase), while - probably - a lot of Labour voters stayed at home. Cleggmania was a media flash-in-the-pan. Hung parliament was an inevitable outcome, IMO, particularly given the economic climate which would make it hard for the non-encumbent/main opposition party (regardless of ideology) to gain a landslide.

Clegg has outflanked the tories. they wont do a deal with the lib dems. so in the next week there will be loads of discussions. brown may step aside, or announce (like TB did) that he will at X point in the future.

tories fucking blew it.

best hope for cameron is to let the others fuck it up, then hope for another election in the next year. then he can fuck it up.

Ali Baba - I did, Paxman was brilliant!

I loved the Paxman interview! "But 2 million more people voted for the Conservatives than Labour". "Yes but it clearly shows the country does not want a Conservative govt". ROFL!

Just goes to show the delusions of labour!

Oh, here's GB. Plenty of heckling and noise going on

He'll try to hang on by his fingernails for as long as poss

Yes they did give you a strong message Gord. Bah byeee

In fairness, herbietea, he can't go until the situation between Clegg & Cameron (and between Clegg & himself) is clarified.

I'm sure I heard him say to Sarah "fetch me the toolkit, I'm barricading the door"!

I remember a wonderful story about Maggie (from a snr. civil servant who was there on the day) about how she was crying and her fingers had to be prised from the door frame. A little dignity please!

He's currently running around the house stuffing kippers behind the radiators.

And, fwiw, I think Clegg will not "deal" with Brown. He realises Brown is too unpopular to ever be a good bet.

If Clegg won't deal with Brown, Brown will have no choice but to stand down. However, he would be letting his party down if he were to throw in the towel before Clegg has clearly said no (and, if the roles were reversed, a Conservative leader would have to do the same). Then Cameron will be PM.

I think he's going to play a longer game and gamble on the Conservatives becoming unpopular as a minority government making big cuts, etc. The essential weakness of a minority government will force another election in 12-18 months, and at that point Labour, with a new leader, and the Lib Dems, might agree a pact with more seats.

Oh, and of course that pact would be based on the promise of a referendum on PR.