Labour’s relationship with the Lib Dems gets more like Dallas’s JR
and Sue Ellen with each passing day. Contemptuous and contemptible one day to lisping breathless compliments the next. Gordon Brown snarled at Nick Clegg during last week’s debate. Clegg would, Brown argued, leap gaily into bed with the Tories on Friday morning – a departure from the
previous ‘we must form a progressive coalition’ line pushed by Andrew Adonis. This morning brings another volte face: Brown and several cabinet ministers urge
‘progressives’ to vote tactically.
Writing in the Guardian, Gordon Brown pitches for Lib Dems to vote Labour in 100 Tory/Labour marginals. Peter Hain insists that votes are cast ‘with heads, not hearts’, further inducing Lib Dem voters with the promise of ‘a four year alliance in the next parliament’. Most telling of all, the tribal Ed Balls, who is conducting a rearguard in his constituency, tells the New
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