Monday, 10 May 2010

A selection of recent media reports

General Election 2010: Voters of Britain have elected an unviable parliament
The term "hung parliament" is derived by analogy from "hung jury". When a jury cannot agree, the judge dismisses it and orders a retrial. Similarly, this hung parliament is likely to prove unviable, and will soon have to be dissolved so that the British public can be persuaded to make up its mind, says...
Telegraph.co.uk (09-May-2010)

General Election 2010: The country must come first, not party politics
For the sake of the nation, a deal should be struck, and...
Telegraph.co.uk (09-May-2010)

Why the Lib Dems lost their surge
When it came to immigration, the electorate just didn't agree with Nick Clegg
Guardian (08-May-2010)

Now for the shabby deals: Kingmaker Clegg tries to persuade Lib Dems why they should listen to the Tories
Clegg meets frontbench MPs as he tries to broker deal Cameron makes astonishing power-sharing offer to Lib Dems Clegg emerges as kingmaker despite seeing poll bounce collapse Defiant Brown claims squatters' rights in Downing Street Nick Clegg today spoke to senior Lib Dem MPs as the party decides whether...
Mail Online (08-May-2010)

EU faces tough future unless it changes - report
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is at a critical point in its existence and will struggle for influence in 20 years' time unless it finds unity and firm leadership, a group of elder statesman said in a report issued on...
Reuters UK (08-May-2010)

David Cameron would be a lame duck but Gordon Brown is simply a dead duck
Get that game show host on the line! Is that what we want? A coalition of losers? A deal done behind closed doors between Labour and the Lib Dems? Our Government put in the hands of the parties who whatever way you spin it came a distant second, and a crushed, emphatically rejected third? Many readers..
Mirror.co.uk (08-May-2010)

CLEGG HOLDS THE KEY
DAVID Cameron last night made a bold bid to become Prime Minister by joining forces with Nick Clegg. He believes a Conservative-Lib Dem pact would be enough to kick Gordon Brown out of Downing...
Daily Star (08-May-2010)

Fiasco that would shame the third world
Hung parliament or not, the General Election produced one clear result on the night. All the TV pundits agreed that this was one of the most shambolic, incompetent and fraudulent elections Britain has ever...
Mail Online (08-May-2010)

David Cameron offers Lib Dems deal to oust Labour for sake of Britain
THE future of Britain hangs in the balance this morning after David Cameron invited Nick Clegg to join him in a new vision for the...
Online Sun (08-May-2010)

Genocide brute Radislav Krstic has throat cut in Brit jail
A BOSNIAN Serb general serving 35 years for war crimes had his throat slashed in a British jail...
Online Sun (08-May-2010)