The UK Election!!!!

If the Conservatives get most of the remaining seats then they may try to form a minority government, hoping to get enough support from the smaller parties when they need it.The BBC reports that Nick Clegg has suggested that the Conservatives should be the next government. A deal with Labour looks unlikely unless the Conservatives mess things up - and it will probably require Gordon Brown to resign, too, which doesn't seem that likely at present. Although there may be some sort of backlash to come, there.

The big problem is that Labour and the Lib Dems don't have enough seats without taking some of the smaller parties on board, too. Clegg has said that he thinks that the Conservatives should go first, and that he doesn't want Brown as PM. I'm not saying that it won't happen but I don't see it happening today. With senior Tories talking against coalition and against forming a minority government it seems better to let them fail before going back on what's already been said, even for a possibility of electoral reform (which will likely never be delivered - I can't see it being popular with the Labour MPs who risk losing their seats if it happens).

I don't think it will work out quite like that. More, if Cameron can't cut some sort of deal for Lib Dem support he hasn't got a working government. And thanks to Brown he stands little chance of it without some offer in the direction of electoral reform. I think that it's better for Clegg if the Tories are seen to fail before he makes a deal with Brown.