The British People Have Not Been Betrayed

Norm does a good job pointing out the sillyness of this silly Johann Hari column in which Hari complains that the Liberal Democrats have betrayed themselves, their voters and the country by agreeing to advance Liberal Democrat goals from government. How shocking! Nevertheless, Hari complains that “the British people have not got what they voted for”. Well nor have BNP voters but I doubt that Hari is bothered by that.

Nor should he be. In any case, no-one votes for a government of any stripe. All anyone gets to do is endorse a given candidate in their local constituency. After that  it’s a case of letting the national chips fall where they may. Hari, however, complains that it’s all most unfair that the people – for whom he presumes to speak and whose opinions he appears to know – have been robbed. Apparently:

55 per cent of us voted for parties of the (relative) centre-left – the same proportion who say they want a country that is less unequal and less unfair.