I can't see what other outcome there would have been. Many voters were sick to here of 'the squatter in Downing Street' and were going to vote him, rather than the party, out.
But we don't vote for Gordon Brown- we live in a parliamentary democracy. Brown wasn't squatting in Downing Street, either. It is accepted convention that the serving PM, in the event of a hung parliament, stays in office until a reasonable situation has arrived and another party is ready to take on office.
I am angry that the Lib Dems have decided with a regressive political party. All Clegg's talk of new politics was clearly his attempt at getting into the cabinet (in a role that doesn't even mean anything, anyway), rather than delivering what he had said.
I know we don't vote for Gordon Brown. I also know he wasn't 'squatting' in Downing Street, I was merely quoting a headline I had seen much repeated on paper and online which seemed to capture the feeling of a lot of people. I happen to think that a leadership contest should be an electable event rather than being decided internally within the party as it is now. I took the headline to refer to the fact that he was an unelected-by-us PM, not that he was overstaying his welcome in No 10.
To be honest, the only way the Lib Dems could have managed to get in, at least at present, would be the way they have done, as part of a coalition. I think everyone should give the guys a chance and let them settle in a bit before getting the knives out. Both parties have amended and changed their policies, made concessions and dropped things that previously they held dear in order to attempt to make the Government work.
I think it's more the Tories that I have the problem with, and somehow it seems like it's been a wasted vote... but at the same time, I do think it will be good that some of the Lib Dem policies (especially the first steps towards full voting reform) will be able to be implemented, rather than just spoken about without hope
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I am angry that the Lib Dems have decided with a regressive political party. All Clegg's talk of new politics was clearly his attempt at getting into the cabinet (in a role that doesn't even mean anything, anyway), rather than delivering what he had said.
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To be honest, the only way the Lib Dems could have managed to get in, at least at present, would be the way they have done, as part of a coalition. I think everyone should give the guys a chance and let them settle in a bit before getting the knives out. Both parties have amended and changed their policies, made concessions and dropped things that previously they held dear in order to attempt to make the Government work.
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