Posted on 05/11/2010 8:47:59 AM PDT by C19fan
Gordon Brown looks set to resign tonight and allow David Cameron to become Britains new Prime Minister after Labour talks with the Liberal Democrats collapsed.
The Labour leaders desperate bid to cling on to power fell apart after his own MPs responded with fury to the prospect of a Lib-Lab pact and there were clashes on policy with Nick Clegg.
After five days of high drama following the election ending in a hung parliament, the deadlock appears to be over with the Tories on the verge of sweeping to power.
Mr Brown is holed up back at Number Ten with wife Sarah and his closest aides and luggage has been spotted being piled into cars at the back of Downing Street.
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I’d feel better if it read “Obama to quit as President.”
I must admit I have no idea how their system works. People can compromise after an election? Make deals? Join forces? Anyone have the quick and dirty explanation?
The issue is the Tories “won” the election but did not win enough seats for an absolute majority in Parliament. That means Cameron can be kicked out at any time by a no confidence vote if all the other parties gang up on him. Cameron is trying to make a deal with the Liberal-Democrats that in return for some concessions they will not cause trouble.
I think
Obama’s time will come. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the screw is turning.
OTOH, Harper has run an excellent minority govt in Canada, essentially daring the liberals to call an election.
Cameron needs to do the same and distance himself from the LibLabs by going Conservative.
They will be having another elction late this year or early next.
The equivalent in the US would be if the party in charge of the House of Representatives chose the president and there was no popular vote for President. Under this system, Bill Clinton would have been kicked out of office in 1994 when Republicans took over the House and Bush would have been kicked out in 2006 when democrats took the House
Was watching Fox News coverage of this, and apparently the Tories won a bigger victory in sheer numbers than Tony Blair did back in ‘94. But Labour has had a decade and a half to essentially gerrymander them out of contention, which, it appears, they very nearly did.
I wonder, does anyone know, did our own US senate system work more that way when state legislatures selected and sent their senators by legislative vote?
I’m thinking that the election of state legislators, in years when a particular state had q senate term opening, though of course that elective task would not be so important as a vote for PM in parliament.
Good to see that some in Labour have character. Brown’s not one of them. Sounds like he had to be forced out.
At this point it doesn’t seem worth it for Cameron to negotiate too hard with Clegg. Though there was no clear majority, a plurality voted to go in a different direction.
Clinton was elected this way TWICE, and supposedly that was good enough for a mandate.
It still wasn’t the same back then.
By the way, popular election of Senators was one of the many things activist liberals did in the early 1900’s that weakened the U.S.
The Founders set it up the way they did for a reason. Get ready - soon POTUS will be elected by popular vote.
The big question...
Is Obama going to send the new Prime Minister DVDs of himself as a gesture of friendship?
This will be a very odd setup. In my mind Lib Dems are left of Labour and now the Tories and the Lib Dems will be sharing cabinet positions?
I only hope Cameron can solidify his power base, call another election and get a proper Conservative government in place.
If that's correct it might have been wiser for Cameron to cool his jets for a few months as Leader of the Opposition.
Bravo David!!!
....and my sympathies.
Doubt it. Chances are the Tories will simply have to roll up their sleeves and clean up the mess that the Labor party caused with their rampant taxation, illegal immigration, and complete irresponsibility. That’s what conservatives do after all, clean up the messes made by liberals.
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