Farage Hints At Pact With Tories

[Gromit]

// Nigel Farage has suggested he is prepared to do a deal with Conservatives ahead of the next election if they surrender working class seats in Essex and Kent.
Mr Farage said that if he was David Cameron, he would offer to give up 30 seats where the Tories are currently trailing behind Labour to give Ukip a clear run.
In exchange, he suggested that Ukip could agree not to fight the Conservatives in marginal seats in more affluent, middle-class areas such as Dorset. //

Should/will Cameron bite?

[ichkeria]

Nigel Farage really must be a fruitcake if he thinks Cameron is going to agree to that. I will be polite and suggest that it is some sort of headline-grabbing publicity stunt to get UKIP back in the news ...

[sandyRoe]

Would his price for supporting the Tories, assuming there had been a pact and a few UKIP members were elected, be a seat in the cabinet?

[whiskeryron]

//
jeffa
But what could he possibly offer in return, other than allowing UKIP to have win a seat or two? The country simply wouldn't accept Farage as deputy PM. //

Forgive me for being thick but do the electorate EVER get a choice of who is Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister. What you actually get is a choice of party in an election & then have to put up with whosoever the winning party selects as their leader & deputy whether you like it or not.

[venator]

Even more laughable would be a pact between Millipede and Farrago!

Two of the least attractive party leaders since Gordon Brown.

[Wharton]

This is all grist to the mill for the YES campaign in Scotland. Keep it coming.

[ichkeria]

"Forgive me for being thick but do the electorate EVER get a choice of who is Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister. What you actually get is a choice of party in an election & then have to put up with whosoever the winning party selects as their leader & deputy whether you like it or not."

But we are a parliamentary democracy not a presidential one and all the better for it.
Mind you I agree that the thought of Nigel Farage being deputy PM is revolting, but it isn't going to happen.

[mikey4444]

It certainly isn't ichkeria, as he isn't even an MP yet !

[humbersloop]

generous offer from Farage in the circumstances

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/14/ukip-guardian-icm-poll-tories-labour-nigel-farage

[mikey4444]

It was inevitable that UKIP were never going to keep up their pre-Euro election popularity. They are a one-issue Party. People are finally coming to terms with the fact that UKIP are not going to change anything. They are just a protest vote. Farage needs to get seats at Westminster, and lots of them to do anything worthwhile and nobody can see it happening, including all the Polls and the Bookies.

[Farriercm]

Well if all you Tory Faithfuls are talking about a Coalition Government,then you are expecting the Tories to loose the next election ,and to form another non elected COALITION Government just like we have now. YES.

[Jomlett]

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