Clearly no fantasies about a Cameron landslide, then.
Lib Dems are mostly local communitarians and populists, and giving each of them the little thing that he or she wants on his or her patch would not necessarily be the worst way to shore up a majority, to say the least.
Individual Lib Dems also do sterling work on pet causes, and again a government could do a lot of good by striking the relevant deals in order to keep itself going; look forward to the further opening up of the family courts, to a Coroner's Inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly, and so forth.
No one can deny the Lib Dems' prophetic voice against the lunatic foreign policy of the Blair years, a significant and most welcome break with their own record in the Nineties.
And dare we even hope for Vince Cable, if not as Chancellor, then certainly in a very senior position dealing with economic policy?
But the Lib Dems as a party are Eurofanatical, anti-family, pro-crime and pro-drugs. So yes, they are the perfect coalition partners for David Cameron.
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I think I would deny the prophetic part. The LibDems not only supported Bliar on the Yugoslav war, which in objective terms is clearly far more vriminal than the Iraq one, but were enthusiastically in the lead in in supporting war crimes, genocide, ethnic leansing & worse there. Under a different leader they opposed the Iraq war but had helped establish the attitude of atrocity which made Blair think he could do it again.
ReplyDeleteAs I said, Iraq was a significant and most welcome break with their own record in the Nineties.
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