Comments on: LDV survey: What Lib Dem members actually think about a hung Parliament

By: LDV members’ survey: is electoral reform a hung Parliament ‘deal-breaker’? And are Labour or Tories most likely to deliver it?

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:57:06 +0000

[...] Yesterday, we looked at how Lib Dem members would respond in the event of a hung Parliament, assuming electoral reform was on the agenda. Today we’re looking at just how important you think electoral reform is, and which of the other two main parties you think are most sympathetic to the idea of electoral reform. [...]

By: KL

KL — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:59:10 +0000

LondonSlatto – the Lib Dems were “forced to choose” between the SNP and Labour in Scotland in 2007. They chose neither – which is a valid choice.

By: Hywel

Hywel — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:37:32 +0000

@LondonStatto

The choice to negotiate with both or neither will also be an option in the scenario you describe.

By: LondonStatto

LondonStatto — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:21:01 +0000

That’s not a flaw – it’s a feature. It’s a deliberate forced choice.

When forced to choose (as the parliamentary LDs will be in the event of a hung parliament) LibDem members chose to support Labour over the Tories by two to one.

You’d really better hope that news doesn’t take hold in the southwest of England and other LD-Con marginals.

By: Jessica Ashman

Jessica Ashman — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:23:14 +0000

So the lib dems would do a deal with anyone as long as the was a promise to rig the voteing system.

By: Philip Young

Philip Young — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:50:53 +0000

Given that the Tories and Labour voted together to go to war, both want to cut spending by ten per cent, have no differences on Welfare Reform and have voted together in the same lobbies, and there isnt a cigarette paper between them on other issues, why dont they get together? It would save a lot of dosh.