Burnham strikes a blow to the Lib-Lab coalition

2trueblue

Liebore, says it all does it not? I hope Cameron can go it alone as none of the options look trustworthy. Where are all the knowledgable people who must know what the options are? This is surely not something that has not been thought out and prepared for? Gus O'Donnel would not my first port of call for the take on the situation. It is incomprehensible that there is nothing in place for this event.
For goodness sake somebody give the Queen a call.

Andy Carpark

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TGF UKIP

Burnham was equally unenthusiastic/disparaging when interviewed by the World at One at an MPs' football match.

Stuart Bell was also adamant that he would vote against any form of PR

David B

The idea of the Rainbow coalition has not been in vain. It has proved two things to the electorate:

1. For all their rhetoric about new politics, the Lib Dems are full of the same old politicians. Lord Steel and Ashdown and MPs Cable, Hughes and Kennedy have proved they cannot get over their own personal prejudice, as Ashdown said on the Today Programme his loyalty lies with his political party and his political friends and those friends are in Labour . The Lib Dems had one change to prove they were new and different and it has been well and truly blown apart by the “Same old politics”.
2. The electorate can see the squalid nature of coalition deals and the honeymoon for PR will be over. It will be no easy task to sell its supposed virtues to the electorate as I suspect a large portion of both Labour and Conservatives will now unite against it.

I keep returning to the same theme, but look at what happened to the Labour party in Ireland in their 1992 General Election. The electorate gave them the position of king maker and they blew it. The Irish Electorate punished the Labour party at subsequent general elections and they have not really recovered.

The next general election will prove whether the Lib Dems suffer the same fate.

Tom Pride

Will Straw has given it the thumbs down at Leftfoot and reading Ben Brogan it wouldn’t surprise me if we start hearing “it was not me” from Brown soon. Mandy, Adonis and Campbell could find themselves as the fall guys as this picks up momentum. (HT Guido)

I am looking for my whistle cause I might be heading to the Palace soon (to stand on the pavement), see it with my own eyes and vent my spleen. Do you think he will go in and out the main entrance or slip in round the back?

Paul Hawkins

Tom Pride, the coward will send a text message.

' Liz, urgent business in Fife. Will call.Don't wait up'

Jorge Akadopolis

trueblue,,

"Where are all the knowledgeable people who must know what the options are?"

Everybody and his brother on all the blog sites seems to be the answer. But just to get my oar in I'd like to see a caretaker administration installed to administer the basic functions of government for a month or so while a fresh election is called so that public, now aware of the consequences of indecision, can vote for the government perceived to be the most likely to win and best able to govern in the general interest.

Tom Pride

Funny that. In the land of the sighted it took a blind man to tell the one-eyed man he is not the King.

Peter Crawford

Can I just mention that Andy Burnham does not wear eyeliner, lipstick, or mascara ? Even though it looks like he does. Such scurrilous accusations are not required in these difficult times. There is a government to be formed and the views of Andy Burnham are to be welcomed even if he does wear tights, in midnight blue, for the "fuller figured woman", from Asda, on expenses naturally....

Tiberius

So the mechanism for halting the Lab/Lib manoeuvre is lack of uniformity within the Labour ranks.

The honest brokers within Labour now make Steel, Campbell, Hain and others look like opportunist liars.

Paddy

Breaking News: Bags being packed into car
at back of Downing St.

Has the Queen leant on Brown?

Tiberius

15.58 Gordon Brown is packing his bags. Large hold-alls are being brought out of a Number 10 back door and loaded into the Land Rover and Jaguar often used by the Prime Minister, the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg reports.

From DT.

Richard of York

Libs have over played their hand now they have only one side to deal with.....fully expect them to get less than yesterday from the Tories, perhaps end up with nothing.
LOL
Happy Days
Cameron on a tight rope and Clegg looking at the same fate of most of the other X factor winners ...oblivion.
Florida here I come......happy days!
Fair votes campaign will slaughter the Liberals over the next few weeks.

Let the fun and games begin.

Tom Pride

Birnam Wood is on the move.

Ordinaryvoter

Was I alone last night in heading to the garden shed to dig out my pitch fork and getting ready to march today on Downing Street? I never thought the day would come when senior ministers of the crown from the Labour Party would try to organise a coup d'etat. Tarnished for ever. The LD's will also now live with the odium of public disapproval for their lack of judgement.

Ian C

A Lib/Lab Pact Mark II was dead in the water once Reid and Blunkett had expressed quite clearly what the reasons are against. It did not need a brain surgeon to work it out and it would have guaranteed a Tory majority at an Autumn or late winter election re-run.

Burnham is following that lead. He is not as stupid as he appeared as a Labour minister.

Dirty Euro

No way he is like guy you bring to the poker table who tells your opponent what cards he has.He has only helped the tories get a better deal.

smell the glove

Richard
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michael

Now there's a guy with an eye for the main chance.

Paddy

Mandelson, Campbell and Brown thrown out of Downing St.

Wonderful. Will sleep tonight.

Paddy

Richard: By Alistair!

Tom Pride

Dirty Euro

Tired and emotional?

tenpin

I have never really like Burnham.....always thought he was out of his depth and didn't have the brains. But good for him for making a stand against his bullying/spinning masters. He has gone up a notch in my book.....that puts him on notch 1

Paddy

Tenpin: Don't be taken in by Andy Burnham.

All the Labour Party are backtracking now.