CrosspoolClarets wrote:Just to pick up on this reply from last night, the things I would worry about Corbyn bringing in if he is in power (even in a coalition) are:
An independance vote for Scotland and NI (I think he is in favour of their independance)
Double the stating public spending by spending on other things as well as those in the manifesto
Tightening of the rules regarding police and MI5 surveillance without a court order
Retaining freedom of movement and even loosening it outside the EU
Those are just four, but all are things where he could easily get away with it with coalition partners by offering deals in return. All four could be a disaster and couldn't be easily undone by the next government. His manifesto is to get elected - once elected the more controversial stuff can be pursued, and Labour have a good number of Lords too. He is very good at running campaigns, him getting in is not a fairy story.
But he simply can't get the numbers in Parliament to add up to get this sort of thing through - as I demonstrated yesterday.
In the extremely unlikely event that TM lost her overall majority the Conservatives would most likely make an alliance with the Ulster Unionists, or even run a minority govt.
I simply can't see Corbyn being at the head of some kind of coalition, his zealotic, tunnel-vision supporters would simply not stand for making compromises with (e.g.) the Liberals, the DUP etc.
I'll lay you a wager on this if you want with the loser making a donation to charity.
Incidentally, if you're concerned about losing Ireland and Scotland, then you can blame Cameron, and now May for that. Brexit was always likely to renew calls for a United Ireland, (due to the hard border issue), and an independent Scotland, (due to promises made during the Scottish independence referendum that couldn't be kept).
