Cable Accuses The Tories Of Lying

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29496477

I'm really not sure if this coalition is going to last until next May. They are at it like rats in a sack. If Cable is now saying that the Lib Dems could "not go along with" Conservative proposals for £25bn of further spending cuts, just how are the hell are they going to work together if they are in coalition for another 5 years ? It was never an easy alliance at the best of times but its now getting to be a joke.

[jourdain2]

In answer to your question, mikey, I don't know. They have been fighting like cats in a sack for some time. Apart from major decisions on foreign policy they have both decided to draw the line and start fighting their own corners. UK may as well not have a government for a few months. On the other hand (bright thought creeping in) we may actually get representational voting?

[BlackadderV]

Irrespective of which side of the political fence one sits, this is ridiculous. Here is a man on a Cabinet Minister's salary biting the hand that feeds him. If I were Cameron I would immediately dismiss all LibDem ministers and form a minority administration. If voted down I would go straight to the country. It has happened before, and it will happen again.

[mikey4444]

Blackadder...I am tending to agree with you here. The LibDems and the Tories made strange bedfellows, to put it mildly. The LibDems have more in common with Labour ...after all, that is where the LibDem Party came from in the first place...well, partly anyway. I am still sure that they could have made a coalition with Labour in the days after the 2010 election but I guess Brown was the main barrier to that going ahead.

Its going to be a very interesting few months !

[naomi24]

//If I were Cameron I would immediately dismiss all LibDem ministers and form a minority administration.//

If it comes to it, I think that's what he will do - and who could blame him?

[mikey4444]

What a delicious prospect !

[weecalf]

What if labour sack milly join the torys to keep the lib dems out. That way we will have worst of both worlds. With the slogan ...Uncapable Cable is not able .

[mikey4444]

Labour join the Tories...now there is solution to all our problems !

[ludwig]

// I am still sure that they could have made a coalition with Labour in the days after the 2010 election but I guess Brown was the main barrier to that going ahead. //

I think they knew Brown would be impossible to work with, and anyway they owed it to the country to get rid of him.

[jourdain2]

Linguistically I rather enjoy weecalf's slogan

[BlackadderV]

They didn't form a coalition with Labour simply because the maths didn't add up. A union of Lab and Lib MPs would still have left them in a minority. They would have then had to woo the DUP!

[DaisyNonna]

What do you mean, "getting to be a joke"? It always has been, not a funny one either

[jno]

they are separate parties who have to fight their own corner as well as governing together. They have to agree a programme, mroe or less, but they don't have to like or trust each other. Ifno single party gets a majority at the next election you'll see either another coalition, or a minority government.

[Gromit]

The coalition will probably be disbanded before May.

If there were to be a coalition between these two again, the conditions would have to be re-negotiated after the General Election. The LibDems have recently published some lines that they would not be prepared to cross.

[ludwig]

// The LibDems have recently published some lines that they would not be prepared to cross. //

Which means nothing of course.

[mikey4444]

Gromit...I seem to remember a previous line in the sand that the LibDems were going to refuse to cross....something about tuition fees, if I recall correctly !

[janbee]

"cable accuses tories of lying"... Hello kettle, you're black.

[mikey4444]

"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day." :::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29525173

[weecalf]

Are con vinced about cabel