Labour Lib Dem coalition

Whitewavemark2

How’s the Nat Con conference going, anyone heard anything?

Oh thanks, I’m ahead of myself

No wonder I hadn’t heard anything😄

The schedule of speakers with titles of speeches is available on the NatCon website.

Germanshepherdsmum

Junior partners cannot exert much pressure. Look at the Conservative/LD coalition. I merely comment . I don’t expect the Conservatives to lose the next GE.

Sorry GSM you are wrong, small parties can have a very large influence, the unionists caused chaos to the May government, in the same way extreme religious parties cause chaos is Israel.

The Tories are not to be written off but a hung parliament is highly likely, Starmer is going to need every vote he can get to get a majority

I’m talking about coalition governments Katie, not the influence that factions within a governing party and elements outwith that party can cause, of which we know much.

Whitewavemark2

I think that all parties prefer to govern on their own, but pragmatically if push comes to shove they will endeavour to form some sort of lose coalition.

let's hope it's not a lose coalition..

Pascal30, it probably would be. From past experience is the majority party in a coalition likely to hand over any power to
the minority group? Or accept any suggestions from the minority group that didn’t meet with their approval.

The Tories and Labour have enough problems satisfying factions within their own parties, adding to that outside ambitions of another party makes government so much more difficult.

and, of course, inflation reduces the value of debt and the interest we pay.

So our national debt is roughly £2,500 billion, but in real terms we will probably end up paying only £1,500 billion.
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