Tories and possible coalition government

[redcommander]

Which parties do you think would be willing to form a government with the Tories?

[You kip if you want to...]

Lib Dem talks will fall through and the Tories will run a minority government and Cameron's will go to the queen for a dissolution a week or two after the conferences.

[The Man From G.O.P.]

The Liberal Democrats and only them.

[redcommander]

It seems like it would be more beneficial in the longterm though to work with smaller parties such as DUP and Plaid Cymru.

[ag]

Democratic Unionists They should be possible to deal w/.

PC won't work w/ Tories, it's just very unlikely. Nor would it help much. Even if they manage to get some sort of a coalition, incorporating everybody but LD and Labour, it won't be stable. Even if nobody defects, over an average parliament, any gov't usually looses a few MPs due to natural causes, leading to by-elections, which it not infrequently looses. LDs are the only ones capable of providing any modicum of stability. And they won't cost more than the mutually exclusive demands of a wide array of minor nationalists.

[J. J.]

There are three real possibilities:

1.  Con/LibDem coalition, which could be stable for several years.

2.  Minority Con government, which probably would not last a year.

3.  A caretaker government that lasts until the Queen's Speech, and a new election is called by August.

Option 1 is probably the most preferable.

[You kip if you want to...]

There are three real possibilities:

1.  Con/LibDem coalition, which could be stable for several years.

2.  Minority Con government, which probably would not last a year.

3.  A caretaker government that lasts until the Queen's Speech, and a new election is called by August.

Option 1 is probably the most preferable.

Another dissolution isn't allowed until atleast September. I think a PM has to wait atleast 4 months.

[J. J.]

There are three real possibilities:

1.  Con/LibDem coalition, which could be stable for several years.

2.  Minority Con government, which probably would not last a year.

3.  A caretaker government that lasts until the Queen's Speech, and a new election is called by August.

Option 1 is probably the most preferable.

Another dissolution isn't allowed until atleast September. I think a PM has to wait atleast 4 months.

What if it is a vote of no confidence?  That is my reference to the Queen's Speech.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Democratic Ulster Party?