Posted: Sep 19, 2018 11:13 am
OlivierK wrote:CarlPierce wrote:ronmcd wrote:Ah yes, "The Resistance". From privatising the Post Office and introducing the Bedroom Tax, to The Resistance under Captain Mainwaring, leading the fight against the dastardly forces of ... their own coalition partners
But it's true the media have bought the lie.Lib Dems “only party in UK to oppose Brexit” says political correspondent in BBC R4 6m news bulletin. What???????
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More of your twisted fake news. Those policies were all tory. If we hadnt had a coalition there would have been a pure Tory regime and those and much more would have happened i was there and heard the discussions. I'm getting tired of your nonsense you stand for nothing but mockery of what were actually very difficult decisions at the time.
Carl, I know you're sensitive to painting the LibDem's as Tory enablers while in coalition with the Tories, but perhaps, if you're feeling kind, you could indulge me and explain how a "pure Tory" MINORITY government would have been able to push through policies that were unpalatable to all opposition parties including the LibDems?
Minority governments are, by necessity, creatures of compromise. Certainly the recent minority governments we've had in Australia have been pulled to the centre by their minority status, and have been forced to compromise the more extreme parts of their agendas to a far greater degree than the UK Tories in coalition, bolstered by LibDem votes under a coalition agreement, compromised their agenda.
At the time we believed that if we didnt deal with the Tories there would be another election and the momentum was with them to achieve a pure Tory government. We didnt have any money to fight another election in 2010.