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Originally posted by ntluser
The Lib-Dems, at least, have a good record at local government level and deserve a chance in government. After all, John Major and Tony Blair were allowed into power on the assumption that they could run the country efficiently. It was only after they got in that they were found wanting. Charles Kennedy is being written off without being given the chance to show what he and his party can do.
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I'll tell you what Charles Kennedy and his party can do:
1. Set up 'proportional representation' for UK General Elections, effectively placing power permanently in the hands of minority parties, single interest pressure groups and extremists.
2. Raise taxes in a ridiculous, outdated attempt to spend their way to a better Britain without any consideration of how that money should be spent more efficiently.
3. Scale down UK defence when the world is more dangerous than at any time in the last 20 years.
4. Sign us up for the Euro, whether we want it or not (and every poll ever conducted on the subject says we don't want it).
5. Agree with any and all future moves by federalist members of the European union to place tax, defence and foreign policy matters in the hands of Brussels...
6. ... Thereby ensuring there is no Nation called the UK left to govern....
7. ...and relegating the Houses of Parliament to the status of a very grandiose town hall.
But then running town halls, as you point out, is something the Lib Dems are reasonably good at, so I s'pose you can't blame them for sticking to what they know.