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Citizen (The) Doctor
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« on: April 26, 2010, 09:45:34 AM »

Forgive me if I'm a little fuzzy on this, but what are the political positions of the Liberal Democrats exactly?  I know they're to the left of Labour on many topics, but I'm not too sure what else there is about them (aside from the social liberal/market liberal split in the party).
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Citizen (The) Doctor
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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2010, 06:34:03 PM »

So in a hung parliament, we're much more likely to see a Labour/Lib-Dem Coalition?
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Citizen (The) Doctor
ArchangelZero
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2010, 06:46:11 PM »

So in a hung parliament, we're much more likely to see a Labour/Lib-Dem Coalition?

At this point, I think we're more likely to see a Lib Dem/Labour coalition than a Labour/Lib Dem one. (If everything else--including party seat and vote totals--were equal, yes, but not if Labour is smaller than the Conservatives.)

Clegg and Brown working together...now that's a sight to see...
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Citizen (The) Doctor
ArchangelZero
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2010, 07:40:34 PM »

So in a hung parliament, we're much more likely to see a Labour/Lib-Dem Coalition?

At this point, I think we're more likely to see a Lib Dem/Labour coalition than a Labour/Lib Dem one. (If everything else--including party seat and vote totals--were equal, yes, but not if Labour is smaller than the Conservatives.)

Clegg and Brown working together...now that's a sight to see...

Without Brown, of course. That should have been obvious; there is absolutely no chance of Brown being leader of the Labour Party after this election unless Labour is not in government.*

*Assuming, of course, that the chances of Labour winning more than ~310 seats are essentially nil, which I think is reasonable.

So Clegg and whoever replaces Brown then.  At least it isn't Clegg and Cameron, which is a lot worse.
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