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It does look like I was a tad idealistic with the all the putting our country before established interests stuff. Still, one step at a time and all that.
Coalition kicks tough decisions into long grass
Times Online – Sam Coates – 1 hour ago
David Cameron and Nick Clegg unveiled their five-year programme for government today and dropped a number of signature Tory and Liberal Democrat policies.theres one problem with coalition governments. People voted for these two parties on manifesto promises. As soon as they get any power some of those are simply put on the back burner.
@Sgt Pepper wrote:
Hmmm :-k …
Let’s have a look at some of the national results from last Thursday..
CONSERVATIVE PARTY – Votes 10,706,647 – Seats 306
LABOUR PARTY – Votes 8,604,358 – Seats 258
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS – Votes 6,827,938 – Seats 57
UKIP – Votes 917,832 – Seats 0
BNP – Votes 563,743 – Seats 0
SNP – Votes 491,386 – Seats 6
Thatcher won three elections without ever getting more than 43% of the total vote.
Which says to me, in my inebriated state, that in all those years we never had a government with any conclusive mandate in actuality.
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