Lib Dem activists overwhelmingly back coalition

[Berberis]

Lib Dem activists have "overwhelmingly" backed leader Nick Clegg's coalition deal with the Conservatives.

 

It appears, despite what some members of SF would like people to think or would like to happen, the Lib Dems are more than happy to form a coalition government with the conservatives.

 

All this nonsense about the coalition being doomed and Lib Dems abandoning their own party out of distaste for the Conservative/ Liberal Democrat coalition, seems to be nothing but more sour grapes from the losers of the general election.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8685341.stm

 

Personally I was torn between voting Conservative or Lib Dem. The present government is perfect in my view, with one lovely cherry on top, labour was not only booted out of office, but Gordon Brown was toppled from his perch and sent packing.

[melthebell]

 

Personally I was torn between voting Conservative or Lib Dem

 

how?

theyre both political opposites??

[HeadingNorth]

My own suspicion was that, given an equal choice between the two, the Lib-Dems would rather ally with Labour. However, it never was an equal choice; ally with the Tories and you have a strong, stable government, but ally with Labour and you would still be teetering on the precipice.

 

Doubtless if Labour had won 280 seats to the Tories' 230, the position would be very different.

[HeadingNorth]

theyre both political opposites??

 

 

Clearly not true. There was much common ground in their manifestos, which will now be implemented; and where there were differences, mature debate and co-operation has led to a middle ground that can be put forward.

[Berberis]

how?

theyre both political opposites??

 

The Lib dems as with all the main parties in the UK occupy the same quadrant of the political spectrum. All parties are just varied degrees of one another.

 

To call the Lib dems and the conservatives’ political opposites is wrong. In terms of Libertarian or Authoritarian, Labour and the Lib Dems are more dissimilar then the Lib Dems and the conservatives.

 

Labour is an authoritarian, neo-liberal party. So is the conservative party, who are neo-liberal but very much less authoritarian. The Lib dems are again neo-liberal, but are more on the side of Libertarian then authoritarian.

 

This Mix of neo-liberalism / with a small amount of authoritarianism mixed with libertarian polices makes for a broad approach to government, that could see Labour consigned to the dustbin of history as they lose ground to this new form of government.

[mj.scuba]

They know which side their bread is buttered.

[zepstox]

Things have changed in the conservative party.

http://tinyurl.com/35c8hyq

[Vague_Boy]

how?

theyre both political opposites??

 

Like the Conservatives and NuLabour you mean?

 

Anyone who thinks that the modern Tories and NuLabour are in any way different needs to read Orwell's Animal Farm, in particular, the ending:

 

But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing? Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away.

 

But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.

 

Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

[jobee]

Lib Dem activists have "overwhelmingly" backed leader Nick Clegg's coalition deal with the Conservatives.

 

It appears, despite what some members of SF would like people to think or would like to happen, the Lib Dems are more than happy to form a coalition government with the conservatives.

 

All this nonsense about the coalition being doomed and Lib Dems abandoning their own party out of distaste for the Conservative/ Liberal Democrat coalition, seems to be nothing but more sour grapes from the losers of the general election.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8685341.stm

 

Personally I was torn between voting Conservative or Lib Dem. The present government is perfect in my view, with one lovely cherry on top, labour was not only booted out of office, but Gordon Brown was toppled from his perch and sent packing.

 

 

But the real villain was that phony Christian/Socialist Tony 'two wars' Blair.

 

Who left Brown a mountain of debt unprecedented since the second world war.

 

Go back to Scotland Tony-- pleeese.

[Funky_Gibbon]

Lib Dem activists have "overwhelmingly" backed leader Nick Clegg's coalition deal with the Conservatives.

 

It appears, despite what some members of SF would like people to think or would like to happen, the Lib Dems are more than happy to form a coalition government with the conservatives.

 

Activists are not the same thing as voters.