I know it's just a coincidence...

[ffutures]

...but the BBC reporter currently describing Gordon Brown's resignation is called Ian Watson, and I keep expecting to hear the dulcet tones of the SF author.

If the LIb Dems do end up in bed with Cameron, which seems to be what's about to happen, above and beyond possibly agreeing not to block the Queen's speech, it will be a cold day in hell before they get my vote again.

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[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I agree with that.

If they made an agreement for not very much - you'd have a point.

But they seem to have got a referendum and deputy PM out of the Tories - perhaps even more. Which is more then I expected. So now it's sit back and see what happens ....

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I will need a lot of convincing.

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Understandable - hate the tories with a burning passion. This morning for the first time ever I'm working for them. Which burns.

But - the lib dems must be able to form a coalition government with other major parties if government is going to make sense. This is even more true once we have PR.

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

Indeed, if they can't work together now, where is the proof that they'd stand any chance of working together under any form of PR? It's perverse, but surely the best chance for getting political reform is for them to work together in coalition and prove that it would be a viable form of government.

I can't see how either the option of refusing to work together at all, or the option of working just until a referendum happens and then pushing a no confidence vote would work in the favour of PR. It'll just push the electorate in to a position where they feel they have to have one of the big two because otherwise it's just a circle of defeats and no government at all. While that has its temptations, realistically wouldn't it be a Very Bad Thing at the moment..?