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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
It has probably taken this long to get GB to a point he could look and sound sincere thats why we havn't seen it from the begining. Also i never said labour and the lib dems were close i said they had both had spells of cosying up to each other prepping the ground for a coalition
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Well maybe although it's mostly Labour buttering up the Lib Dems.
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I don't see a hung parliament as a best of both worlds more a worst of both worlds where bargaining is more important to maintain the coalition then actually getting doen what needs to be done.
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Action that needs to done in whose mind? Again, if the share of the vote is too low then any government cannot really claim much of a mandate. It's bad enough Labour got a majority with 38% of the vote last time. Other countries have successfully have collation governments, it tends to provide some balance to a single party ruling the shop passing whatever they want.
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I like the general idea of a the big society in which we all play our part in our communitys and surely after all these years of people complaining about the growth of government and it's interference in our daily lives we should all be supporting that sort of idea.
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I don't really understand it. You can get involved with your community, via charity or other schemes. I don't have time to help run a school, I elect people to manage the education system and my taxes go to pay professionals to do the job for me. People don't want to set up their own schools, manage their local NHS trust, they want good schools and good hospitals. That's better achieved with adequate funding and leaving it free of political interference than with gimmicks.