Lib/Lab coalition? UK implications?

[MumInBeds]

I was pondering how a Lib/Lab would work as it doesn't have a working majority and friend on FB put in reply "They would bring in the Welsh and the Scots nationalists which would mean loads of spending cuts for England and their spending will be protected so you and I in England will be paying off the deficiet while our celt friends will have their service ring fenced..... can't blame them for putting their peeps first pity our politicians don't do the same"

That hadn't occurred to me before, could this further divide the UK?

I think the Queen should run the country instead.

Lol @ minthumbug I like that, it could work!

Clegg has actually strengthened cameron by talking to Lab.

When he has to come crawling back to the Tories they can reduce what they were willing to give him

But ahundredtimes - more people wanted Labour out at the last election than wanted them but I didn't hear Labourites complaining about the system then....

It's amazing how an election that doesn't give you power can bring about a death bed conversion to PR

Remember - Labour promised a referendum on PR in their 1997 manifestom but 'cos they had a large enough majority fobbed the country off with the Jenkins Commission which then gather dust on a shelf

I am a lifelong Socialist who hates New Labour with a passion - they sold their soul for power. I beleive passionately in free state comprehensive education and a free NHS (it is no coincidence that my mother was a teacher and my father was a doctor - who brough me up in my socialist principles but who, like me, can no longer stomach Labour)

Fortunately I live in Scotland so I have an alternative (although not in my Westminster constituency - a monkey with a red rosette would get here).

WA - it looks like it's had the opposite effect!

Tories now offering referendum on AV

erm. . .

So the party who came 3rd in the election is teaming up with the party who were voted out of power- if they were not going to listen to the peoples preferances why did they bother having an election?

I voted for the first time, took it very seriously, did lots of research- why did I bother? It all strikes to me of playground cliques.