Revealed: Labour plot to oust David Cameron from Downing Street by Friday night

[brooklynite]

Source: The Telegraph

Labour is plotting to oust David Cameron from 10 Downing Street within 24 hours of the polls closing, aides to Ed Miliband have revealed.

Senior Labour aides are poring over copies of the Cabinet Manual, the Whitehall rule book which sets out how governments can be formed in the event of a hung Parliament.

Mr Miliband’s team believe that it will be clear by the end of Friday, less than 24 hours after the close of polls, whether Mr Cameron will be able to get enough support to pass a Queen’s Speech, which sets out planned legislation.

Mr Cameron’s options for forming a minority Government – with Ukip, the DUP (Ulster Unionists) and possibly the Liberal Democrats - are expected to be more limited than those open to Mr Miliband, who can also speak to the Lib Dems, Greens and even the Scottish Nationalists.

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[JDPriestly]

1. Let's hope, hope, hope.

[samsingh]

2. i am i am i am

[Helen Borg]

4. YES!

[libdem4life]

10. Socialists everywhere...Hope it's the sign of a societal turn back to one for the People.

[totodeinhere]

3. It would be great to see him form a coalition with the Greens.

He would probably need other partners as well.

[T_i_B]

5. Would this deviant plot involve standing against the Tories?

How very DARE they challenge the glorious Cameronfuhrer!

[KamaAina]

6. Cameron would go into coalition with Ukip?!

(Ukip, UK Independence Party, make our Tea Party look quite moderate and barely at all racist. )

[starroute]

8. Polls seem to show UKIP at 13% of votes but only 2-3 seats

So even assuming he would dare to do it, an alliance with them wouldn't put Cameron over the top.

[T_i_B]

9. Also...

Cameron would have to deal with the Lib Dems, who might actually find coalition with UKIP a bridge too far.

Although they might be able to accommodate the DUP.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. "pass a Queen’s Speech"

That sounds painful, even if written on A-4 paper.

[Joe Chi Minh]

11. Good ! I feared they would allow themselves to be railroaded - as the Tories have

begun endeavouring to do via their tabloid rags - into deferring to Cameron on the specious grounds of his party having garnered more votes (if indeed they were to do so - I don't believe the latest polls suggesting it). I've (postal) voted SNP in Scotland, as I believe Sturgeon will help keep Labour honest.

Poor Ed, still trailing perceptible clouds of NuLab(c) ignominy, burbling along austerity lines, for which there is zero case. I hope it was flim-flam for disaffected Middle-England.

[roamer65]

12. A Labour-SNP coalition will be good for Britain.

Both English and Scottish interests will be represented well, but from the left as they ought to be.