Making it work
Sir: Your leading article (24 April) tells us that: ‘A hung parliament would be a disaster. Coalitions do not work in Westminster’s adversarial system.’ Can’t you see that the adversarial system, with its focus on doing down the opposition rather than on working collegially to decide what might be best for the nation, is exactly what we are sick of? If our voting preferences result in a coalition then we’ll expect our elected representatives to damn well make it work. If they let it become a disaster we may choose not to vote for any of them ever again.
Derek Rowntree
Banbury
Dividing lines
Sir: James Forsyth’s observation (Politics, 24 April) that there may be only a fortnight (now a week) to save the Conservative party makes one wonder why David Cameron has not made use of the material in Brendan O’Neill’s article ‘Fifty Commandments of New Labour’ (24 April). A soundbite on the 4,300 new criminal offences and a commitment to cease and reverse legislation would certainly win over a percentage of the new young voters apparently being mobilised by the reality TV effect of the prime ministerial broadcasts.
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