General Election 2010 Page 83

Quote: bigfella @ May 5 2010, 12:57 PM BST

Scary post on the BBC's live text feed thingy!

1234: Writer and broadcaster Clive Anderson predicts that Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman will be prime minister by next week. He argues that the Lib Dems will be unable to work with Gordon Brown and will opt for a coalition led by Ms Harman instead.

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Christ on ice. Luckily, Anderson is a tool. And no one else anywhere, that I've read, seen or heard, has predicted that particular outcome.

Even Nick Griffin would be a preferable resident in Number 10.

Quote: Nogget @ May 5 2010, 1:56 PM BST

Not while they still have Mandleson. If there's a coalition to be made, it will be his slime which best oils the deal with Clegg. He'll offer Clegg an assortment of electoral reforms as hors d'oeuvres, with a main course of Brown's cold, lifeless head on a stylish silver platter.

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a) Mandleson? After how he's run this campaign, you still think he might help them to keep above water?
b) Clegg won't get into bed with Gordo; he's toxic. It just won't happen.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ May 5 2010, 3:16 PM BST

That is truly terrifying. Harman's long been in the wrong party. She's got one of those Tory witch faces. Doesn't she ever look in the mirror?

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Harman's soul is perfectly suited to the Labour Party.

Quote: Aaron @ May 5 2010, 4:18 PM BST

Harman's soul is perfectly suited to the Labour Party.

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I feel a bit sorry for you, Aaron, because from Friday you've suddenly got to switch to playing defence as your team take over and f**k everything up.

Personally, I think we've drifted from hung parliament territory and will be into small Tory majority. Bigfella's 20 seat prediction sounds right, although I wouldn't be surprised if it was bigger than this. Pity, I was looking forward to a hung parliement.

You didn't die!

Quote: zooo @ May 5 2010, 5:22 PM BST

You didn't die!

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There's still time!
But I have been home all day drinking plenty of "fluids". As I was advised to do by the world, his wife and his kids.

Hehe.
But what kind of fluids...?
Cat wee doesn't count. Apparently.

Quote: bigfella @ May 5 2010, 12:57 PM BST

Scary post on the BBC's live text feed thingy!

1234: Writer and broadcaster Clive Anderson predicts that Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman will be prime minister by next week. He argues that the Lib Dems will be unable to work with Gordon Brown and will opt for a coalition led by Ms Harman instead.

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It wasn't a prediction; it was a 'joke' along the lines of ... If the Lib Dems won't work with Brown, they'll have to have his deputy.

However, it's looking good for my favoured (and expected) result - a Labour PM but not Gordon.

Quote: zooo @ May 5 2010, 5:26 PM BST

Cat wee doesn't count. Apparently.

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>_<

Quote: JohnnyD @ May 5 2010, 5:30 PM BST

It wasn't a prediction; it was a 'joke' along the lines of ... If the Lib Dems won't work with Brown, they'll have to have his deputy.

However, it's looking good for my favoured (and expected) result - a Labour PM but not Gordon.

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If it's a hung parliement, Gordon Brown has the right to carry on being PM, I think. So for a new Labour PM, he'd have to resign. Which isn't in his nature.

Gordon Brown will be in the House of Lords by next Tuesday-ish and we'll have a nice new Labour PM. Lovely.

Quote: chipolata @ May 5 2010, 5:22 PM BST

I feel a bit sorry for you, Aaron, because from Friday you've suddenly got to switch to playing defence as your team take over and f**k everything up.

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Fine by me; I've never claimed nor pretended that they're perfect, nor do I believe they won't f**k up. But their f**k ups won't be nearly as catastrophic as those of the Labour party.

Quote: JohnnyD @ May 5 2010, 5:30 PM BST

However, it's looking good for my favoured (and expected) result - a Labour PM but not Gordon.

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What have you been reading/watching/smoking? Not even Labour politicians believe that.

Quote: JohnnyD @ May 5 2010, 5:38 PM BST

Gordon Brown will be in the House of Lords by next Tuesday-ish and we'll have a nice new Labour PM. Lovely.

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A Labour PM who isn't Gordon Brown is all but impossible at this stage.

Quote: Aaron @ May 5 2010, 5:51 PM BST

A Labour PM who isn't Gordon Brown is all but impossible at this stage.

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At what stage?

A Government that can pass a Vote of Confidence will have to emerge by Monday morning, or the City will shit itself.

Quote: JohnnyD @ May 5 2010, 5:57 PM BST

At what stage?

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This one.

Well, yes, he's not going to give up power before the Election.

Of course, it could turn out to be 1992 again, and the polls entirely inaccurate.

That's Gordo's Labour's only hope.

Quote: Aaron @ May 5 2010, 5:51 PM BST

But their f**k ups won't be nearly as catastrophic as those of the Labour party.

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Truth is, we just don't know how badly they can handle things, since they have no track record, apart from those who were in John Major's sleazy shambles of a government.