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If Labour and the Lib Dems joined forces, they would have the Northern Irish SDLP (who sat on the government benches in the last parliament) and the one new Alliance MP who is allied to the Lib Dems. Together that's 319 votes. 307 Tories (the Thrisk seat isn't going to be anything else) + 8 DUP = 315 in opposition because the SNP and your Welsh lot ain't going to help them. The Green is going to vote on a case by case basis (and if PR is about, she would sign up in all probablity to the left). The Liberals would insist on the defeated leader of the Labour party to stand down, Maggie was kicked out while in a stronger position..
That would still mean a minority government and it would take very little to scupper any bills the government tried to introduce - more or less the position John Major found himself in.
Anyway, it appears that Broon has had another Gillian Duffy moment on the phone to Nick Clegg so Lab-Lib is definitely off the menu. So what does Con-Lib mean for us? The 2 parties have several policies in common but the media (and the David Miliband-led Labour Opposition, of course) will concentrate heavily on the differences, which includes foreign policy/defence. Will we start to pull out of Afghanistan in the next 12 months? Will the Navy lose Trident?