A Truly Grand Coalition

They might be wrong about economics (can they not see that their views in that field contradict everything else for which they stand?), but they are right about a great deal of other things, and now they, the Cornerstone Group of Tory MPs, have launched a blog HERE.

Although he'd probably better not announce it while campaigning, PM Brown should invite each of the Cornerstone Group and the Socialist Campaign Group to nominate one MP, on Privy Council terms, to sit on each Cabinet Committee, and one (most obviously Edward Leigh and John McDonnell respectively) to sit in Cabinet, though without voting rights, on those same terms.

All in return for never actually voting against the Government (although abstention would be all right, at least for Tories and so long as they didn't speak in the debate). A similar deal would be harder to strike with the Crossbench Peers, but would still be possible with enough will.

Not only would this all be good in itself, but it would sod the Lib Dems, and with them the BBC's obvious campaign to revive New Labour's founding aspiration of a Lib-Lab merger entirely on the Lib Dems' terms. That, in turn would have a significant knock-on effect on the Cameroons. Or rather, a significant knock-out effect on the Cameroons, the last standard-bearers of New Labour.