bridge too far

queen

Now Broad's dropped a sitter

Aren't Ferrari saying that there's a rule that says no overtaking on the final lap if the SC is out?

eastender

8 for 3 :shock:

watson out for 2! oh and another one gone 7 for 2!

nail

dice

It depends though on what they (the Tories) try to introduce. More people voted against DC than for him, so they might be inclined to forgive the Libs if the Libs joined with Labour against a particularly unpalatable piece of legislation or if we went back into recession.

pants

millworkers

Jeez, Webber is drop-dead gorgeous :smt049

I hear what you say TDD. But I reckon there's more politicking done behind closed doors than we realise. What's to stop discontented Libs meeting up with Labour (once it's realigned itself yet again after its leadership election) and Labour saying 'look guys, we're different now - vote with us and we can force an election and take you on board because you're much closer to us ideologically than you are to them'? Or am I being uber-cynical

Thanks Wes. I'm thinking, for example, about the AV proposal. A lot of Tory and Labour MPs are against it, because they want FPTP and a lot of Liberals are against it because its not the PR they wanted. These malcontents could combine to defeat the coalition.

Grrrrr I know this. And coalitions fail / fall. That is my point. I guess, if the Libs don't like a proposed measure and vote against, in spite of the agreement, this will prompt a confidence vote and then, potentially, a vote to dissolve?

That's as may be. But it doesn't really answer the question, with all respect. Given that the Libs and the Tories are going to both campaign in the forthcoming by-election, I do wonder just how binding the agreement is. There's bound to come a time when DC wants to do something that goes against the Liberal grain. Will he lose the vote?

clever

Having read the Observer this morning, and learnt of the discontent amongst senior Liberals, I got to wondering what would happen if a lot of the Liberal MPs decided to vote against the coalition. Or are they not allowed to do that because of the 'agreement'? This isn't a wind-up question - I'm really curious to know just how binding the agreement is.

Isn't that the Independent?

fight

Pitt (the)

But what if he's telling the truth?

If they liquidate, this could happen: Importantly, once a company has been liquidated either through a Creditors Voluntary Liquidation or winding up, the liquidator will produce a report on the conduct of all of the directors in the period running up to when the business stopped trading. If the liquidator believes that the directors did not act properly during this period (particularly in the area of minimising the creditors losses), then they can accuse the directors of wrongful trading. If this accusation is upheld, the directors in question can be made personally liable for the company's debts. They may also be banned from being a director of other new businesses and forced to relinquish their directorship of other current business interests. from: http://www.articlesbase.com/credit-articles/compulsory-liquidation-and-how-to-protect-yourself-as-a-director-1043342.html

Pearl (as in 'and Dean')

Goliath