Inrteresting that the two Labour negotiators who are most serious about a deal are unelected! Nothing changes in the Labour party does it!

I wish we could also elect new presenters who are not nailing blue flags to masts at every opportunity. We're turning into a benign media dictatorship.

We need media reform as much as electoral reform.

I am so glad to see this post. I have found Robinson amazingly biased on so many occasions. He has talked on several occasions about "my hunch" of a Lib-Tory pact and he has been vociferous in trying to make that the narrative and has given short shrift to the alternatives. He has also talked about the Tories "winning the election" - they have not done so. Saying that confuses people who don't spend every waking moment thinking about politics and makes a Lib-Lab government seem illegitimate. Stupidly, some Labour MPs seem to want to buy into that notion as well. Labour and the Liberal Democrats should do a deal not just because it is in the nation's best interests but because it will teach right-wing newspapers and former Young Conservative presidents a very big lesson in trying to scare and bully the public and political parties into getting David Cameron into Downing Street.

Get Labour out!

Bob (the builder?) makes a fair point, Major did inherit the premiership. It stunk then, and it stinks now. As our system has effectively become presidential, with the country run by one person and their unelected advisors, and it is very weak to argue that parliament chooses the government. Let's go the whole hog and recognise that the parliamentary system, a relic of former centuries in no longer fit for purpose. Republic now, I say, all hail to President Farage!

I couldn't care less about Adam Boulton, Kay Burley and all the rest of the sycophants paid to push the views of a right wing non dom Ameraussie press baron. After all I can choose not to buy his wares. However, as long as Nick Robinson is getting his pay from me and you through the Licence fee one would like to imagine he would be able to at least appear impartial. He was practically spitting in apoplexy yesterday afternoon.
The BBC which is supposedly meant to be impartial and unbiased should perhaps be putting a word of warning to him in these times when the Murdocracy is trying to undermine it.
Amongst other things this election has certainly changed my views on the licence fee. Perhaps it is time it had to stand on its own merits, minus the licence fee. I for one could get better value for money for my £140+p/a online.

The old aphorism "He who sups with devil needs a long spoon" springs to mind. Is Nick Clegg's spoon long enough?

this wanker looses his seat then expects to keep the dup party leadership hes worse than gordon brown ,imagine a con a lab leader keeping the party leadership after looseing their seat . you are a discrase and should step down you lost . you lost to a party against your politics of hate , were sick in northorn island of the politics of hate from both sides , catholics and protestants they are as bad as each other .

It's a pity the prospect of a Lib-Lab pact didn't last longer - Nick Robinson's head might have exploded. He clearly took the possible rejection of a Lib-Con coalition as a personal affront. In his tiny right-wing mind he thinks he's responsible for making the news and for dictating Tory policy. How dare those pesky voters contradict him!

Cameron made a deal with the devil - Murdoch - agreeing to make huge cuts to the BBC. Nick Robinson's election coverage was a long and desperate plea to keep his job. As was the extraordinary display of fellow Tory-flirt Laura Kuenssberg whose provocative poses were clearly an offer to do 'whatever it takes'. Saucy minx!

And while we're on the subject...I hope Nick Clegg isn't feeling too sore this morning (and I hope he remembers to pull his trousers up before appearing in public).