Quote:
Originally Posted by 007stuart
Agreed and perhaps we will end the continual seesawing from one ideology to another, pursue a more centralist agenda and cease the endless re-organisations of public services which really serves no purpose than to divert money from front line activities.
|
Aside from that, this coalition has actually been the first government in living memory where the majority actually voted for one of the parts of the regime in charge.
When a party can win 40% of the vote, not even a plurality, and command a sizeable majority of power, it makes for a system where the majority of voters did not actually agree with the people in power, making a mockery of the idea of a popular mandate.
If in total, LAB and SNP command more votes (And seats) than the Tories, they should form the government, whether you like them or not, just as combined the Tories and Lib Dems combined took 59% of the vote and thus had the mandate to rule combined.
Coalition politics need not be a dirty word, it works.