I know it's just a coincidence...

[ffutures]

...but the BBC reporter currently describing Gordon Brown's resignation is called Ian Watson, and I keep expecting to hear the dulcet tones of the SF author.

If the LIb Dems do end up in bed with Cameron, which seems to be what's about to happen, above and beyond possibly agreeing not to block the Queen's speech, it will be a cold day in hell before they get my vote again.

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[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it's the death-knell for the party - they're inevitably going to move a lot closer to the Tories, unless something dramatic changes things. For the long-term future they would have done better to keep the faith with voters; stay in opposition but work with Labour to block the worst excesses of the Conservatives.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

The problem with that scenario is that you assume the Conservatives would try and form a minority Government by themselves and that is not a certainty. Looking at it rationally, their best option would be for the Conservatives to sit back, leave Gordon Brown as a dead-duck PM and prevent him from doing anything substantive legislatively speaking. Any attempt to get him out with a no-confidence vote could be defeated with abstentions by the super-minority Conservatives requiring the Labour Party en masse to actually kill their own government by voting against their leader. If called on this Cameron could simply point out that the Lib Dems had refused to work with the Conservatives so they could not go to the Queen and offer to form a government to replace Labour as they didn't have a working majority in Parliament.