Qu'est-ce que le tiers état? Tout.
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narcasseLabour still in play - Nick Robinson’s Newslog
I voted LibDem in the recent general election. I’ve voted LibDem in the past because I like the sound of their policies. Generally they seemed to have the right idea when it came to running the country and when the announcement was made that they were entering talks with the Tories first because the Tories actually won the election I was quite happy with that fact.
David Cameron may annoy me and be the very definition of ‘Thatcherite PR: you’re doing it wrong’ but he’s the man the people of the British Isles elected to be Prime Minister. He may have won by a narrow margin but he still won and therefore should be Prime Minister. This is all pretty self-evident so why is there a looming possibility that Labour might well come back into power? They lost.
Qu'est-ce que le tiers-état? The people, and the people voted the Tories into power instead of having Labour back again. And yet there’s a clear possibility that Labour may take power again on the back of the LibDem coalition, a coalition which would prove beyond a shadow of the doubt that the LibDem manifesto is more important to the LibDems than the very democratic system that they’re apparently trying to reform, more important than the electorate themselves. A Labour/LibDem coalition would be a slap in the face to representative democracy. The electorate have spoken and the Tories are wanted in office so how any self-respecting advocate of the British democratic system could support the return of the losers to power, I don’t know. Suffice to say if Labour do stay in power on the back of a LibDem coalition I may well have to start voting UKIP: I don’t agree with their policies, I think they’re very much a single issue party but at least their leader has some integrity.
I voted LibDem in the recent general election. I’ve voted LibDem in the past because I like the sound of their policies. Generally they seemed to have the right idea when it came to running the country and when the announcement was made that they were entering talks with the Tories first because the Tories actually won the election I was quite happy with that fact.
David Cameron may annoy me and be the very definition of ‘Thatcherite PR: you’re doing it wrong’ but he’s the man the people of the British Isles elected to be Prime Minister. He may have won by a narrow margin but he still won and therefore should be Prime Minister. This is all pretty self-evident so why is there a looming possibility that Labour might well come back into power? They lost.
Qu'est-ce que le tiers-état? The people, and the people voted the Tories into power instead of having Labour back again. And yet there’s a clear possibility that Labour may take power again on the back of the LibDem coalition, a coalition which would prove beyond a shadow of the doubt that the LibDem manifesto is more important to the LibDems than the very democratic system that they’re apparently trying to reform, more important than the electorate themselves. A Labour/LibDem coalition would be a slap in the face to representative democracy. The electorate have spoken and the Tories are wanted in office so how any self-respecting advocate of the British democratic system could support the return of the losers to power, I don’t know. Suffice to say if Labour do stay in power on the back of a LibDem coalition I may well have to start voting UKIP: I don’t agree with their policies, I think they’re very much a single issue party but at least their leader has some integrity.
