Bollitics: The General Election 2010 Exit Poll

[mjmooney]

So this morning Mandelson , Milliband and Balls meet the Libs without Brown

and this afternoon Brown resigns .... Kai su, teknon ?

aka "Et tu, Brute".

Yes, that will have been it.

[thetrees]

So the Lib Dems will wallow in the mud with their Labour friends.

Not good news for the country, but probably good news for the Conservative party.

I wonder if the Labour party conference will be before or after the next General Election?

[drat01]

So this morning Mandelson , Milliband and Balls meet the Libs without Brown

and this afternoon Brown resigns .... Kai su, teknon ?

aka "Et tu, Brute".

Yes, that will have been it.

Hague and Ashcroft sneak off for a quick pint ........... :wink:

[Richard]

So the Lib Dems will wallow in the mud with their Labour friends.

Not good news for the country, but probably good news for the Conservative party.

I wonder if the Labour party conference will be before or after the next General Election?

Brown had to go regardless of the talks he was and electoral hinderance and had to go. It made sense for him to announce it now.

I think there is still some way to go yet in these ongoing discussions

[Villaninireland]

Full scale row between Alistair Campbell and Adam Boulton on Sky news at the minute . Tis great !!

[bickster]

So being as David Cameron has seemingly failed to deliver government, when's he resigning?

[tonyh29]

So If I have this right

If Lab / Libs agree a coalition Brown would still be PM until around September when labour elect a new leader

Guess we will see whether Clegg has his Principals after all as on paper he can't accept this deal

Of course the other option could be that Brutus , Balls and Milliband will offer Clegg the role as PM in any coalition until such point as Labour elect their new leader .. can you have an interim PM like this ?

for the sake of the country Cameron has to say he will go it alone and stop all this buggering about that is going on , Brown can't be allowed back into number 10 other than to pickup his medication and turn the lights out

[Richard]

Clegg refered to Brown squating in number 10, I hope he doesn't help him there as that would not be good for him

[PauloBarnesi]

Any chance of a Blair comeback?

[stewiek2]

Seems to me that Mandy and co are so desperate to hold onto power that they are willing to push Brown to a deal with Clegg to keep that power. If only to get rid of NuLabour, and Mandelson, please Clegg, **** them off. 13 years of pretend 'fpr the people' government. At least the tories were always upfront at being c**ts.

[drat01]

No Tony that is not what was said (and stop the silliness re drugs / medication eh?)

At the end of the day - the :Libs have to speak to Lab now as there are seemingly still issues with a ConDem alliance. There has to be a plan B just in case the ConDem talks dont work out. This is all sensible stuff. Brown was always going to resign, its the thing that leaders of parties who don't get the majority typically do. The thing is he couldn't just do it until there was at least a reasonable plan for a new PM. Now that new PM could be Cameron in a minority gvmt, it could be Cameron in as part of a ConDem alliance, it could be a LibLab alliance, but it's seemingly obvious for the latter that Brown could not stay as leader of the Labour party and if that in anyway hindered the negotiations then he had to go public with the announcement.

All this rubbish about not voting for a PM is silly, unless of course that IS a electoral reform that the Tory party would like to see?

I'm still having a few quid on a Darling as next PM. (free bet so not costing owt)

[tonyh29]

But Brown hasn't actually resigned with immediate effect so he would be PM on paper under a there are no losers just parties that didn't win coalition

PS

I can stop the drug references if you agree to stop the Ashcroft silliness :-)

[Dodgyknees]

I'll be rejoining the Labour party now Brown has gone.

[Guest Ricardomeister]

Good news for the people of the country (and foxes and deer!) that the Lib Dems are now chatting with Labour. Their philosophies of a fair society for everybody are far more likely to work together than the Lib Dems' fair society working with the Tory party's fairness for the rich and privileged and selfish only society.

I said a few weeks ago that Brown would go after the election after seeing an interview on tv and that my ideal result would be a Lib Dem-Labour coalition with a new Labour leader (I would prefer Alan Johnson but David Miliband is fine too....no Harriet Harman or Ed Balls though please!). Let's hope for the good of the country, especially the weak and vulnerable and those who do not have the advantages and opportunities that others take for granted, that the fox murderers are sent back to the opposition benches where they can't ruin so many lives.

[thetrees]

So being as David Cameron has seemingly failed to deliver government, when's he resigning?

And Nick Clegg?

[thetrees]

Good news for the people of the country (and foxes and deer!) that the Lib Dems are now chatting with Labour. Their philosophies of a fair society for everybody are far more likely to work together than the Lib Dems' fair society working with the Tory party's fairness for the rich and privileged and selfish only society.

I said a few weeks ago that Brown would go after the election after seeing an interview on tv and that my ideal result would be a Lib Dem-Labour coalition with a new Labour leader (I would prefer Alan Johnson but David Miliband is fine too....no Harriet Harman or Ed Balls though please!). Let's hope for the good of the country, especially the weak and vulnerable and those who do not have the advantages and opportunities that others take for granted, that the fox murderers are sent back to the opposition benches where they can't ruin so many lives.

Screw the economy and the lives of our boys in Afghanistan.

Just so long as the foxes are alright :shock:

[Dodgyknees]

Somebody mentioned Jon Cruddas to me the other day, have a read about him.

I like Alan Johnson but am not convinced.

Anybody but David Miliband for me. But I would give him a chance if that happens to be the choice, I am just not sure of his morals.

[billy_loes]

Its obvious now that Roy Hodgson will lead the Labour Party/ Lib Dem coalition government.

[Bazdavies79]

Screw the economy and the lives of our boys in Afghanistan.

I wonder whether we'd have had these silly wars had there been a lib lab government during the last 13 years.

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]

Anybody but David Miliband for me. But I would give him a chance if that happens to be the choice, I am just not sure of his morals.

I'd wager he's a bit of a lefty, as in more on the socialist scale of things rather than the last two new labour leaders.

Probably why he won't get it then, they seem content in being a middle of the road party without any balls to shake up the system.