Boat Drinks Virtual Election

[Zirax]

Originally Posted by Dymetrie

Maybe someone should direct Mr Cameron this way, it'd save negotiating...

Cut price politician

bwahahaha Some of the questions and answers are just fantastic

[Glaucus]

I don;t now why news keep banging on about a lab-lib coalition. It wont have enough seats. And getting the smaller parties on will cost to much.
I can't see a Con-LIb coalition either.

So Brown in, until vote of no confidence. Will that then allow Cameron in with a minority government? Which will then be blocked on policies and a re-election called.

[Zirax]

Indeed,

Meanwhile our cheeky EU cousins are planning this little turd for the new gov't.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-out-euro.html

[Mark]

I guess we could always claim a 10% bail-out. That'll teach them!

However, I think we should refuse and refer the whole thing to the ECJ. How is this ever a natural disaster? Simple - it isn't.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by AcidHell2

I don;t now why news keep banging on about a lab-lib coalition. It wont have enough seats. And getting the smaller parties on will cost to much.
I can't see a Con-LIb coalition either.

So Brown in, until vote of no confidence. Will that then allow Cameron in with a minority government? Which will then be blocked on policies and a re-election called.

A Lib-Con coalition would be interesting, from a bystanders point of view. The Tories would absolutely decimate public services and after a period of time long enough for this to piss the public off they will be lambasted for it. If the Lib-Dems are in any form of co-operative partnership with the tories then they won't be able to disassociate themselves from the bloody nose the tories will receive.....after all they've only just found out how to attract the mainstream vote. If they did join forces I suspect they would let the Tories govern but only after they'd granted the Lib-Dem conditions.

[Von Smallhausen]

Originally Posted by A Place of Light

A Lib-Con coalition would be interesting, from a bystanders point of view. The Tories would absolutely decimate public services and after a period of time long enough for this to piss the public off they will be lambasted for it. If the Lib-Dems are in any form of co-operative partnership with the tories then they won't be able to disassociate themselves from the bloody nose the tories will receive.....after all they've only just found out how to attract the mainstream vote. If they did join forces I suspect they would let the Tories govern but only after they'd granted the Lib-Dem conditions.

In fairness APoL, whichever government takes over will have to cut public spending.

The current defecit is truly terrifying and must be tackled and that means spending cuts and likely tax rises.

There is not a Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem or coalition government that can magically change the fact that some very nasty tasting medicine has to be taken and swathes of the electorate getting very hacked off.

[Stan_Lite]

I paid a visit to the Shetland Times website earlier after this letter from the UKIP candidate showed up in the RSS feed.

Title: End for the Liberal Democrats.

Firstly, I’d like to thank all the people who voted for me and propelled us to the best UKIP result in Scotland and a trebling of our vote.

I will be standing again and will use the time between now and the next election to raise our profile further.

It will be an interesting week but no matter what the Lib Dems do it will be bad for their party.

A coalition with the Conservatives will lose them most of their membership and the support of the media.

A pact with the Labour Party and the other loonies will be an affront to democracy and should be punishable by political annihilation.

If they do neither they will be seen as irresponsible in a time of economic crisis. Their membership will also see this as the loss of a golden opportunity for electoral reform.

I think it’s the end for the Lib Dems. I look forward to another massive win for Alastair at the next election.

Robert Smith
UKIP candidate

The Orkney and Shetland constituency is a safe LibDem seat and has been for some time (and will be for a very long time to come). The sitting MP, Alistair Carmichael, increased his share of the vote to 62% in this election.

I laughed quite a lot when I read the letter and then I couldn't resist submitting a comment (currently awaiting moderation).

Originally Posted by Me

No sour grapes there then.

If Mr Smith’s result in Shetland, with 6.3% of the local vote, was “the best UKIP result in Scotland”, one cannot fail to see the irony of his calling other parties “loonies”. At least the “loonies” managed to attract enough votes to win seats to offer to a coalition. Mr Smith’s party on the other hand, despite fielding 572 candidates in the election, failed to win a single seat.

Still, as long as no one’s bitter, that’s the main thing.

- Stan Johnson

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Von Smallhausen

In fairness APoL, whichever government takes over will have to cut public spending.

I couldn't agree more, but make no bones about it the Tories WILL cut much further than either of the other two parties and pretty much every pundit agrees on this. If you're a public servant you should be very worried about the prospect of a Tory Govt.

[Feek]

Originally Posted by A Place of Light

If you live in the UK you should be very worried about the prospect of a Tory Govt.

I don't often say this but I feel I have to.....

"Fixed for you"

[Knipples]

Cheerio to my job when the contract runs out next March then. Quite how they think the stuff that projects like mine do will still get done I have no idea. The social workers are overloaded already.