General Discussion
I have no idea how they handle this in Germany or anywhere else where coalition governments are the norm rather than the exception. But I'll have a search off and on over the next few days though to see if I can glean anything. With regard to our political parties letting the electorate know what policies they would negotiate on and what not. I think we are all whistling in the wind if we think ...
I hear all that you say Michael (your 2x posts dated 6th April). Thoughts along those lines have been going around and around in my head for the past 4 years or so. I had hoped that events might have eased how I vote this time (our having a PR system of voting perhaps?) but I am still having a huge head/heart fight and with the general election looming ever nearer I, and many other non ...
Right then, all non Conservative voters listen up (except those thinking of voting UKIP that is). The more I think about the argument in that letter that I posted above the more I see its logic (that's the head speaking). And I say that knowing full well that many of us would love to give the Lib Dems a good thrashing at the polls as a 'thank you' for the tuition fees debacle, the bedroom tax ...
That's a matter of opinion Paul.
I think UKIP will steal some Labour votes as well. Also let's not forget inward migration (from other parts of the UK to this part). What political allegiances might those people have brought with them?
This letter is in today's Observer. I put it here for Labour voters who read this website and who live in this constituency (which is a Lib Dem/Conservative marginal) to have a read of and a think about especially if they have yet to decide what to do with their vote (to go with head? or to go with heart?). "I sympathise with Philip Wood (“ Election 2015: we need progressive politics, not ...
@Soul - of course if the Lib Dems were to hitch up with the tories again what an interesting situation that would be. The Tories with their 2017 EU in/out referendum and you lot being so pro Europe. "The issue of Europe looms like a nightmare for many Lib Dems. They fear their party could be about to give the Tories permission to hold a vote by the end of 2017 which might lead to the ...
and there was I thinking that the south west is, on the whole, a low pay/high cost housing part of the country.
Sod: So, if the people this time around give, say, the Labour party more seats than than the Tories and the Lib Dems have enough seats to form a government with Labour would a Lab/Lib coalition be on the cards as far as the Liberal Democrats are concerned? ...
The electorate does not have the option of choosing a coalition. Do you want this type of coalition or that type of coalition is not on the ballot paper. It all depends on how things pan out. Once the number of seats per party is known I doubt very much that we, the people, will have much say as to which parties form a coalition and, more to the point, which policies they trade off with each ...
