Thoughts on politics and life from a liberal perspective

Tuesday 11 May 2010

+++ Lib/Con deal looking likely now +++

In the last couple of hours, things have started to move decisively in the direction of a Liberal Democrat/Conservative deal. It is still not clear what sort of deal this would be but the indications so far are that it will be a full coalition deal. Holdalls have been seen round the back of Downing Street being taken away in a government Range Rover.


The interesting question now is whether whatever deal has been brokered is ratified by the Parliamentary Lib Dem Party (75% of them need to agree) and then the Federal Executive of the party (75% of them also need to agree). There is a joint meeting of both bodies tonight at 7:30pm apparently.

If that fails then a special conference will be called possibly for the weekend where it will be put to a ballot of voting reps within the party which would need a 2/3rds majority.

Might have to dust off my voting lanyard....

3 comments:

Kalvis Jansons said...

Let us hope it works out! If not, the UK will be in a real bad mess!

Anonymous said...

Apparently the party are planning to run all parts of Southport to give greater legitimency

The Rusticated Classicist said...

The meeting you mention was delayed till 8:30.