Well, so far this new government is doing rather well. It hasn’t passed any unecessary and intrusive legislation yet…
One of the curiosities of the reaction to our new Liberal Conservative coalition has been the wailing and stamping of feet from the Guardian-left complaining that the Liberal Democrats have somehow betrayed progressivism or something. There are some on the left who refuse to accept that liberalism and the Labour movement are not the same thing and the former isn’t simply a subset of the latter.(See Mehdi Hasan for an excellent example of this comical thinking.)
It’s true that there has often been an anti-Conservative majority but there’s also often been an anti-Labour majority and this is one such time. It’s a nonsense to pretend that folk voting Liberal Democrat actually meant to endorse Labour in some mysterious, super-secret fashion that permits one to count these votes as really being cast in favour of Gordon Brown and his henchmen.
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