Pacts And Deals

[Quizmonster]

“The prime minister rejected calls from Eurosceptic Tories to form a pact with Ukip before next year's general election. He told Sky News: "We are the Conservative party. We don't do pacts and deals.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/23/ed-miliband-labour-ukip-change
How did he manage to get into No 10 other than by doing just that?

[naomi24]

//It seems to me that early, tentative moves are already afoot //

What makes you think that?

[naomi24]

Sorry, meant to point out that according to your article Osborne has respect not only for Farage but for all the leaders - or did you just forget to say that?

[mikey4444]

But Osborne is highly unlikely to want to do a deal with Ed, and its equally unlikely that Cleggie will in any position to do a deal with anyone, so who are the Tories going to do a deal with, apart from UKIP ? The NI Unionists most certainly, but that may not be enough.

[naomi24]

Don't let it cause you sleepless nights, Mikey. Wait for the results of the election.

[weecalf]

Is the Bank of England standing in the next election ,they seem to tell the claim ers what to do

[Quizmonster]

"Making a contingency plan for an unknown future..." A 'plan' involving two agencies is a 'deal'!
I myself believe that a plan such as that supposedly suggested by Tory backbenchers - voluntarily putting no candidate up for election in one constituency in return for a quid pro quo in another - should virtually be treated as a criminal conspiracy.
Why? Because electors in both are denied an opportunity to cast a vote for the party they actually want in power. Naturally, it may often happen in the normal course of events that there is no candidate standing for the party an individual elector wishes to win power. (Yes, I know that technically we vote for individual candidates, but the party they represent is hardly an irrelevance!) However, deliberately CREATING such a situation for political gain should definitely be illegal.

[Svejk]

interesting to see the labourites lining up their excuses before they've even lost the election. that's what I call a contingency plan.

[naomi24]

;o)