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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [qb]Well it'd make a change from all the rich Scots screwing up the country...well the part of the country that's England, while somehow giving themselves a separate government that makes Scotland a better run place to live. Odd that.[/qb][/QUOTE]Yeah, that's what it is, a massive Scottish conspiracy to ruin England. You got us. Because it's not as if Scotland has suffered at the hands of previous governments, is it? No, all milk and honey up here. Jesus. [/qb][/QUOTE]You know I was sort of kidding, but since you put it that way I do wonder if some Scottish MPs have been watching too many Mel Gibson films. [QUOTE]I do have to say though, that I don't agree with the contention that a Lib-Lab coalition would be at odds with the results of the election. More people voted for a centre-left party than voted for a centre-right.[/QUOTE]That's the thing though. While officially Labour are still lefties, in the last ten years or more they've been acting more and more like right-wingers than even the Tories, in some cases. I'm not sure the old political lines are quite as relevant as the used to be. As for the seemingly inevitable Conservative/LibDem coalition, it's far from an ideal situation, but to me it's preferable to the current alternatives and slightly more preferable that Labour staying in power. Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic but with a little compromise on both sides I think the coalition might be a positive thing in the long run. Remember how when Blair first got in, it was by such a landslide that they just went ahead and did whatever they wanted, literally steam-rolling the opposition. Having to first negotiate with LibDem may temper anything that would otherwise get shoved through on the Conservative agenda. As for the voters' attitude towards Clegg after the dust settles, I don't think it will backfire too harshly. Party loyalty isn't what it used to be and I think people are finally starting to vote a little more pragmatically rather that out of some outdated vestigial concept of class identification. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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