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The dangers of implicit coalitions

Posted on April 30, 2010 by dsullivan

Image via Wikipedia In all the talk about minority administrations and hung parliaments in the UK general election it would appear people are missing or glossing over the reality that all political parties are coalitions of sorts. In a tight … Continue reading →

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Might the Queen call on Nick Clegg to be PM?

Posted on April 28, 2010 by dsullivan

There is a presumption that the leader of the largest party should be PM but there is nothing requiring it. True the outgoing PM gets first dibs on forming a government and the outgoing government stays in place until another … Continue reading →

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William Hague as PM

Posted on April 28, 2010 by dsullivan

Based on the noises from Clegg over last weekend, it sounds like he might not wish his party to serve with either Cameron or Brown as PM. So borrowing from the northern Ireland model where party leaders don’t necessarily go … Continue reading →

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Why did Cameron agree to the debates?

Posted on April 20, 2010 by dsullivan

Image by conservativeparty via Flickr Many people will think at this point that David Cameron was quite mad to agree to the debates especially with the participation of the LibDems Nick Clegg but I suspect he knew that (a) the … Continue reading →

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A 3-way Leader’s debate in Ireland

Posted on April 15, 2010 by dsullivan

Image by Getty Images via Daylife With the first of the series of the Uk’s three PM debates on UTV tonight it appears not to have occurred to anyone here that if the polls in Ireland were to remain remotely … Continue reading →

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