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Originally Posted by rjt
I would like a clear statement from Mr. Cameron that if his party emerges as the largest one but with no majority that he would form a minority government and try to get a Queens speach passed in the HOC possibly by getting support on set measures from the DUP and UUP.
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I would like to see a statement from the Conservative leadership that it will not (in the event of a hung Parliament) form a coalition or voting arrangement in the House of Commons of any kind with the europhile Liberal Dims (a party now more left wing than many in the Labour Parliamentary party) and that it will do everything possible to thwart any attempts by the Dim Libs and/or others to change the voting system for elections to the House of Commons.
The Conservatives and the Liberal Dims may agree to both vote against ID cards - but that is where any co-operation between the Conservatives and the Lib Dims should begin and end.
I believe that if the Cameron-Conservatives tried to form some sort of minority Conservative Government with the support of the Lib Dims or that a Conservative-Dim Lib Government was formed (after the next General Election in the event of a hung Parliament) it could cause the Conservative Party to partially break up with tens of thousands of members quitting the party in protest at a deal with the Lib Dims (and tens of thousands of other Conservative Party members deciding not to renew their membership). I would expect most of those in any large-scale exodus from the Conservative Party to head for UKIP.
Most Conservative Party members would prefer to work with Dr. Paisley's DUP in the House of Commons rather than with the deceitful europhile Lib Dim Party (and who can blame them) - but there are (unfortunately) europhiles in the Conservative Party (such as Kenneth Clarke and the electoral rejects Heseltine and UKIP-hating Patten) who would prefer to deal with the pro-EU and leftist Liberal Dims than with the pro-sovereignty and pro-free enterprise Northern Ireland Unionists (the DUP and UUP).