Thirteen years and ten days after the Blair landslide….
…the Labour government has only an hour or so left Sky is suggesting that Brown could be going to the palace tonight and maybe David Cameron will be installed as PM a short time later. What we don’t know yet are the details of the CON-LD deal – something that will provide the framework for our politics for several years to come. Mike Smithson
Was Brown conned into resigning as leader?
Were the LAB-LD talks a means of pushing him out? Over the past few hours details have been coming out about yesterday’s move by Balls/Mandelson/Campbell to get their “offer” on the table – a development that was supercharged by Brown’s dramatic statement. The impression that’s coming over is that the Labour bid to Clegg’s party was not that serious but a manoeuvre to put pressure on the Lib Dem – Tory talks. A key part was that amazing statement from…
So are we back with the LibServatives?
With Labour MPs opposed to voting reform holding a meeting this afternoon the mood seems to be moving from Lib-LAB to the LibServatives. One minister has now been quoted as saying that LIB-LAB “won’t happen” and words like “tricky” are now being used to describe the situation. According to the BBC ticker Schools Minister Diana Johnson told BBC Radio Humberside: “What I think, at the moment, is that the numbers for a Liberal-Labour coalition government just don’t stack up. We’ve…
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The wait continues…..
Polling range table
Polling range 2005-2010 CON low-CON high LAB low-LAB high LD low-LD high Total range ICM 31-45 25-40 14-31 46 ComRes* 30-46 21-37 12-31 51 Populus 28-45 21-41 12-31 56 Ipsos-MORI 28-52 18-44 11-32 71 YouGov 31-47 22-44 11-34 71 Election result 37.0% 29.7% 23.6% –
How dangerous a day is this for the yellows?
Could this end up splitting the Lib Dems? This is my 64th birthday and I’m fearful that it could go down as the day that parts of my own party took decisions that could have a lasting and possibly even destructive effect. The election arithmetic and the harsh economic reality for the nation leaves the party with one choice – but one that large parts of it appear to be unable to accept. To be seen to be propping up…