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Nice one Jim - you called it.

Loving your tweets too by the way.

Lib Lab pact = traitors top Democracy.

It'll be fun to watch the Tory Party turn on itself if they're not in power. The Tory party exists to wield power, that is all.

Outrageous. I voted LD to get Brown out! This just demonstrates the disregard the Labour party has for democracy. They lost and have no mandate. Why couldn't they be gratious and let the Con/LD negotiations take place without interference in the interests of the country. If the loser coalition happens the new labour leader would have to call a GE straight away and there would be no chance for PR to be introduced by then. Lib Dems would be hammered for their duplicitous negotiations and only return a handful of MPs under FPTP. They might not even win a referendum on PR as the public would see what happens with hung parliaments. Don't do it Nick - you are being taken for a fool.

@Yeti.

What a bunch of lily-livered dandies must run The City. Flipping and flopping all over the latest headline or twitter trend. You'd almost think that they had no principles, guidelines or sense of direction.

Last week 'the markets' were all going to collapse because of a hung parliament. Tomorrow they'll spiral because a Prime Minister that they don't like will step down as Labour leader. Even though last week they might have spiralled if he didn't.

The FTSE is still based on the value of Britain's 100 leading companies isn't it? Commodities can still be traded in the markets can't they?

Or perhaps gold will turn to cheese, oil to ink and everyone will stop buying anythingg. News of the death of democracy is being greatly exaggerated.

We have no way of telling yet if this is going to prove to be decisive in the bringing about of a Lib/Lab pact, but my God, I love that man.

Watching the right-wing self-combust with indignant rage is ridiculously entertaining.

I never knew Nick Robinson had a Parrot.

You fools. You've just saved cameroon! So ironic. So beautiful. You will have united his party behind him in a way that could never have happened with him in government with the libs. You've just tainted the liberals with gordon brown. 4 more months! Laughable. With the nationalist parties you will need to form a government/get pr, you will have to exempt wales, scotland and NI from spending cuts. Hows that going to play on the doorsteps next election in england?!!! The pound's already taken a nosedive- Brown as twice unelected prime minister!! Opposition would have been a boon for labour as it would have left them as the only serious opposition. They would have been out for one term if they could sort out their leadership problems!! this has made the liberals look terrible opportunists and (once more) Brown as prime minister!!?!

Pr has been a disaster for labour in scotland, they want to change it up there! and do you really think you will have enough labour votes for this, it would take just two votes from labour mp's against to block it!

I hope that formal coalition talks between the Libs and labour occur immediately.

You have just guaranteed a tory majority.

well done

Whew! It looks like democracy might actually prevail after all.

A progressive alliance supported by the vast majority of voters will change the face of British politics forever - and for better.

The Conservatives are offering a referendum on AV! It's all over for them. That has to be unacceptable to the Lib-Dems.

Democracy prevails when a centre-left government representing 15 million voters faces a conservative opposition representing 10 million. Looks pretty clear cut to me.

The wife turned on the BBC to watch The Weakest Link and called me to watch the announcement live from Downing St. Watching the BBC's tory in chief Nick Robinson practically spitting with outrage made me laugh out loud. And here's me thinking the Beeb was supposed to be impartial. Gordon & Mandy have more nous than the other lot put together throwing the cat among the pigeons like that. If this comes off watch the tory party implode in recrimination. You heard that here first as well.

Hague's statement is an admission that the Coservatives will not be part of the government. Offering a referendum on AV is a sop and shows the Conseratives are, in no way, interested in sharing power.

He's trying to establish a narrative which says "We did our best... blah blah... but they didn't want it."

The majority of the electorate did not vote for a Tory government. A wopping 65% did not vote for them. They lost the election. So why oh why do the likes of beak and Emma ask about democracy? If the left unites they represent a larger portion of the people than the right. That's democracy!

Left-wingers in Great Britain are socialists in the Labour party, while the marvellous Conservatives right has the characterised by individualism, free enterprise and freedom. Lib Dem are a central party adopting various synthesis both right and left. So techincally Lib Dems are not strictly left and therefore can not be added to the Labour votes! However, 'New Labour' sought to transcend the left-right dichotomy by asserting the third way: a so called synthesis of the socialist and Conversative traditions.

In summing up, an 'anti-conversative majority' is total nonsense with no supporting evidence!!!

David Cameron for Prime minister!!!

how can david cameron be pm of Great Britain when England were the only country in the UNITED KINGDOM that voted for him. only 18% of scots voted tory and 23% of Welsh. In ENgland only 40% actually voted tory. Its a hung parliament, which means that NO-ONE won. Just cos Torys got the most seats does not mean most people want them in. Most people voted for a left wing Progressie system. Not a Thatcherite, Tory Etonian boy. SO if Lab and Lib can come to an agreement most of the People in the Uk and most of the countries in the Union will be represented fairly!

Also, I dont know if anyone has taken notice, but in the English Council Elections, the torys actually LOST 8 councils, when Labour made a gain of 14 councils. Which tells me even the English rejected the Tories at a local level and that Gordon Brown leaving was all they wanted. Hes going, let him leave gracefully and leave a Progressive Alliance behind legacy him!

The Tories today are making promises they won't keep to the Lib Dems.

Sure Brown lost the election. Labour lost nearly 100 seats and Brown in going before being challenged deserves some credit. For that and stopping Dave having a majority.

There IS an anti-conservative majority in Britain - Reginald Snooty Pants. The Lib Dems are centre to centre left. As are the SNP, PC, Greens and the SDLP.

Centre/Centre Left- 55.9%
Conservative - 36.1%

Labour voters if not the leadership are firmly on the left of the spectrum.

Gordon lost but Dave did not win a majority of seats or anything like a majority of votes.

If only Labour had held 10-20 more seats then this alternative coalition might be a goer...

Gordon Brown organised his exit door left with his greatest ever political maneuver....http://redrag1.blogspot.com/2010/05/red-rag-brown-makes-ultimate-sacrifice.html

If the LibDems prop up Labour it will the Toulouse-Lautrec Government. The Two Losers Party. Putting themselves first. Let the Country go hang.

Dear Sir Your decision to talk to labour means to me you have thrown the national interest out of the window for the interest of your party this will harm yourself and your party in the future Labour will do the same old things ignoring people already the are offering you PR without the peoples permissionwe will have a unelected P M again if you go with LABOUR they will go on to destroy this nation and you will be remembered has the man who helped them do it when I heard you were talking to Labour after they assured you of P R I thought this stinks of self Interest

From whence comes this idea that 'the national interest' is synonymous with David Cameron forming a government? Erm, apart from Tory supporters, that is. The fact is, neither of the two main parties won a clear majority, so neither has more right to govern.

The Tories have had their chance to make a deal with Mr Clegg and it appears that, just as they failed to convince the electorate, that they are now struggling likewise to convince the LibDems.

As for Gordon Brown, rather than the constant Guido Fawkes-style butchery of the man, why can't people just look at the situation with some coolness and see the amount of dignity required today for Brown to come out like this and stand aside. Does anybody think it is easy? People on the right are beginning to lapse into the pathological empathy-deprivation of US Republicans.

It's kind of pathetic to witness at the same time as a rollmop herring type guy like Cameron is paraded as their political genius, saviour of mankind (well, maybe just of investment portfolios)

I was very depressed on Sunday at the thought of a Lib-Con Coalition. I did not vote Lib-Democrat to see the Tories get in through the back door. I am working class and on a low income. I am appalled that my local MP Graham Stringer and John Reid want to throw in the towel and throw us poor working people to the Tory wolves within 50 days.

Let the Tories forge a coalition with the Lib-Dems. It's time Labor took stock, licked its wounds and developed a winable programme. It seems there's cycle of life and death with governments, so why not aknowledge the death and grow something new and vital. That's the creative solution I think. (as an outsider, a Labor voter going wayback and an Australlian.