I also with much fear remember the 80's Tory reign.
I honestly cannot see these two co-habiting in goverment. The gulf is too wide.
When I watched all furor yesterday all the MP's were bothered about was who got what job. not about the people or how this was affecting the country, but for their own self gain. I was appalled. They didnt even try to hide it.
I'm sick of it all now. And lets face it none of them ever do what they say on the tin.
and like you. i would never ever vote conservative no matter what.
I think MPs are always like that. Unfortunately, I don't think they'll undergo a personality transplant overnight.
I was worried about the policy gulf too. It seems that the two leaders are determined to at least try to make it work. I hope they succeed and manage to take their parties with them. The last thing we need now is political instability/insecurity. I honestly think that the Coalition will either be a spectacular success or spectacular failure. I hope for the sake of the country that it's the former.
I have a pretty fair idea whom you voted for-an option that I wouldn't have had down here!:)
I hope that our faith in Nick Clegg isn't misplaced either. At the moment, I don't see any reason why it should be. As I said, realistically, I can't see what else he could have done.
I've read the policy document and there seem to be quite big concessions on both sides. Hopefully the country should be ok if they stick to it!
No reason for the coalition not to work, after all proportional representation exist in most of the world and so cohalition governments are more the rule than the exeption. On a side note , it really creeped me out watching the conference how similar Nick Clerk and Cameron are, they could be twins!
I know that Europe has a very fine tradition of political parties working well together in coalition governments and I hope that th British government can learn lessons from them.
Unfortunately, the three main parties here tend to have very deeply entrenched political views and don't always tend to listen to each other or behave in the most grown up manner (MPs often behave worse than primary school children in the House of Commons, don't they?!)
I'm sure you're right though, as long as both sides stick to the agreement, it should be fine!
I know what you mean about Cameron and Clegg, they do look scarily similar! If Spitting Image was still on TV, the puppeteers would be having a field day! Is it Clameron or Camegg??
I found the whole thing fascinating too! It's a bit strange to see people so worried about a coalition though as it's done so often in other countries (including here.) The thing that seems weird to me is the mix of right-of-centre and left-of centre parties. We'll see how it works out though, for now I'm willing to believe it can work but that could have to do with that hilarious harden press conference. ;) (Obviously, it's really nothing to do with me but I'm interested and I'll be watching. :P
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I'm delighted you find our politics so interesting!:) It isn't usually-most of the time it swings from left to right and back again every few years. This is very different for us
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i too was a labour girl. I also voted lib dem.
I also with much fear remember the 80's Tory reign.
I honestly cannot see these two co-habiting in goverment. The gulf is too wide.
When I watched all furor yesterday all the MP's were bothered about was who got what job. not about the people or how this was affecting the country, but for their own self gain. I was appalled. They didnt even try to hide it.
I'm sick of it all now. And lets face it none of them ever do what they say on the tin.
and like you. i would never ever vote conservative no matter what.
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I was worried about the policy gulf too. It seems that the two leaders are determined to at least try to make it work. I hope they succeed and manage to take their parties with them. The last thing we need now is political instability/insecurity. I honestly think that the Coalition will either be a spectacular success or spectacular failure. I hope for the sake of the country that it's the former.
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I have a lot of (hopefully not misplaced) faith in Nick Clegg, and I hope his people help to declaw the Right Wing of the Tories
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I hope that our faith in Nick Clegg isn't misplaced either. At the moment, I don't see any reason why it should be. As I said, realistically, I can't see what else he could have done.
I've read the policy document and there seem to be quite big concessions on both sides. Hopefully the country should be ok if they stick to it!
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On a side note , it really creeped me out watching the conference how similar Nick Clerk and Cameron are, they could be twins!
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Unfortunately, the three main parties here tend to have very deeply entrenched political views and don't always tend to listen to each other or behave in the most grown up manner (MPs often behave worse than primary school children in the House of Commons, don't they?!)
I'm sure you're right though, as long as both sides stick to the agreement, it should be fine!
I know what you mean about Cameron and Clegg, they do look scarily similar! If Spitting Image was still on TV, the puppeteers would be having a field day! Is it Clameron or Camegg??
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