Forming A Coalition - Part 2

It's now five days since we voted in a General Election and the inter-party "discussions" are still going on. Some of it is so disgusting that the media should stand up and say so now. Particularly my complaint is against the Labour Party. Current thinking is that they can cobble together a deal with the Lib-Dems assuring them of political reform and seats in a coalition cabinet. It would be a minority government that is 20 seats short of a majority. It will not last and will hardly be the stable and strong government this country needs. When it collapses, as it surely will, there will have to be another General Election which the Tories will win with a landslide - and both Labour and Lib-Dems will suffer. This could happen before the coalition has delivered the jewel [for the Lib-Dems] of electoral reform and from then on the Lib-Dems will be in the wilderness for a generation. The Labour Party spin machine - ie Lord Mandelson - believes that a new minority government of Labour-Lib-Dems can be "sold" to the electorate on the basis that they have more than 50% of the votes and that the people voted for the Labour Party and not Gordon Brown and hence they can select their new Labour leader when and however they like. It is a load of bollocks that could only be considered rational in the mind of a scheming, slimy operator like Mandelson. It shows quite staggering contempt for the electorate and the sooner they realise it the better. It is suggested that all this nonsense is happening because certain venerable old Lib-Dems believe that they are naturally anti-Tory. That is not the point. The Tories are the largest party - by far - and so far, in public at least, David Cameron has behaved both responsibly and with statesmanship and at this moment he is one of the few to come out of this haggling with any merit whatsoever.

The Lib-Dems should stop all the shenanigans now and form the alliance that is needed with the Tories. I have been much more impressed by the Tories in the last few days when party figures like William Hague, Oliver Letwin, John Major and others have emerged from the shadows and appeared very reasonable and confident. They can even ignore the rantings of Norman Tebbit - is he a real person?

Today must be the crunch.

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