My Google Alert service has belatedly noticed this: Twitter / LabourList: Brian Barder on what Gordon’s people should say to Clegg’s people if parliament is hung … https://barder.com/2526 Brian Barder on what Gordon’s people...
The media, electronic and print, are in one of their periodic feeding frenzies over the hung parliament and the leisurely horse-trading (very much the right word, alas) over who might form a British government...
5pm on Friday 7 May 2010 with only one more result to come in today: Tories 305 (36.1%), Labour 258 (29.1%), LibDems 57 (23.0%). I don’t think that the LibDems have any serious alternative...
In my previous blog post I sketched out a possible message that Gordon Brown’s emissary might usefully deliver to a representative of Nick Clegg, the LibDem leader, in the event of a hung parliament. ...
If there’s a hung parliament after Thursday’s election, whatever the position in terms of votes cast and seats won, Gordon Brown constitutionally remains prime minister until and unless someone else can demonstrate beyond doubt...
Two items of required reading before Thursday’s election: In the London Review of Books, Vol. 32 No. 8 · 22 April 2010, Jonathan Raban analyses David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ philosophy which apparently steers many...
The LibDems are noisily declaring that if Labour wins fewer votes nationally than the Tories (and perhaps also than the LibDems) but emerges as the biggest single party in the House of Commons, Labour...
Three days ago I spelled out in detail the implications as I see them of the constitution and the new rules promulgated by the Cabinet Secretary for the rights and duties of an incumbent...
Much of the current speculation about what the LibDems will do if the election on 6 May returns a hung parliament is based on a misunderstanding of how the system now works. There’s particular...
The inimitable Guido Fawkes, in a post-Clegg blog post today, describes an election result scenario in which Labour, despite having won a smaller percentage of the national vote than either the Tories or the...