The story so far.
Clegg has said he thinks the Tories should get the first crack at Government.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7690706/General-Election-2010-Nick-Clegg-says-Conservatives-have-the-right-to-govern.html
Brown has said he will let Cameron and Clegg talk and if those talks fail he will talk to Clegg.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLAL00442420100507?type=marketsNews
Now Cameron has said he will being talks with other parties. Possibly a confidence and supply arrangment, possibly coalition. He wants tough immigration controls, strong defense (i.e. Trident). Will give ground in some areas. Both Conservatives and Lib Dems support "pupil premium". Lib Dems want low carbon ecomony, Cons agree. NI raise to be reversed. Con/Lib both want to get rid of ID card system. Libs and Cons both support electoral reform. All party committee of enquiry on electoral reform. Government must deal with deficit this year. Big open and comprehensive offer to Lib Dems.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/liveevent/
Whilst I'm a Labour supporter and would not have considered voting Tory - indeed I would even have voted Lib Dem to keep them out of office - I think it was a good speech.
Clegg to follow up.
Edit: Seems like Clegg is not going to follow up quite yet.
###Previous Results 1945 – Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1950 – Clement Davies with 50% of the vote
1951 – Clement Davies with 58% of the vote
1955 – Sir Anthony Eden with 67% of the vote
1959 – Harold Macmillan with 75% of the vote
1964 – Jo Grimond with 73% of the vote
1966 – Jo Grimond with 70% of the vote
1970 - Jeremy Thorpe with 53% of the vote
1974 (Feb) - Jeremy Thorpe with 62% of the vote
1974 (Oct) - Jeremy Thorpe with 63% of the vote
1979 - David Steel with 45% of the vote
1983 - David Steel/Roy Jenkins with 47% of the vote
1987 - Margaret Thatcher with 48% of the vote
1992 - Paddy Ashdown with 48% of the vote
1997 - Tony Blair with 62% of the vote
2001 - Tony Blair with 54% of the vote
[2005 - Tony Blair with 49% of the vote](https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/co
... keep reading on reddit ➡>The Liberal Democrat leader told LBC radio: “I find it very odd that the debate tonight doesn’t have anybody from one of the parties that have actually been trying to govern our country.”
>Mr Clegg said that the broadcasters had said the debate would include representatives of opposition parties, adding: “I have said to them I would like to participate ...
>“David Cameron, I know, didn’t want to participate in it, but I don’t see why I should have been denied the opportunity to put the side of the story of what the coalition government has done, even if he didn’t want to.”
>Looking ahead to the debate, Mr Clegg predicted: “What you are going to get tonight is you are going to get one guy - Ed Miliband - basically saying ‘for the last half-decade the Government’s been absolutely hopeless, blah, blah, blah’ and all that breathless stuff and remaining completely opaque about how he would balance the books.
>“Then you’ll have Nigel Farage saying ‘let’s cut, cut, cut’ and all these loopy things, and a whole bunch of other people saying ‘can we please invent money out of thin air?’. And there’s no-one there saying ‘let’s get real about some of the choices the country faces’.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2015/apr/16/election-2015-live-cameron-scotland-opposition-leaders-prepare-for-tv-debate#block-552f7911e4b08eb0ae68d06b
I know there is already a topic on the front page but it is worth mentioning because you can guarantee he will lose points because of it.
###Previous Results 1945 – Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1950 – Clement Davies with 50% of the vote
1951 – Clement Davies with 58% of the vote
1955 – Sir Anthony Eden with 67% of the vote
1959 – Harold Macmillan with 75% of the vote
1964 – Jo Grimond with 73% of the vote
1966 – Jo Grimond with 70% of the vote
1970 - Jeremy Thorpe with 53% of the vote
1974 (Feb) - Jeremy Thorpe with 62% of the vote
1974 (Oct) - Jeremy Thorpe with 63% of the vote
1979 - David Steel with 45% of the vote
1983 - David Steel/Roy Jenkins with 47% of the vote
1987 - Margaret Thatcher with 48% of the vote
1992 - Paddy Ashdown with 48% of the vote
1997 - Tony Blair with 62% of the vote
2001 - Tony Blair with 54% of the vote
[2005 - Tony Blair with 49% of the vote](https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/co
... keep reading on reddit ➡