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Is this Coalition Goverment Doomed
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southern muppet
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Hopefully, they have absolute disdain from top to bottom for ordinary people. Hard working, not working, that's all a red herring it makes no difference to them.
Skashion
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Doomed? No. Collapse is not inevitable. However I think it's likely and would put a timeframe of less than eighteen months on it. If in eighteen months the Liberal Democrats are still polling around 10% in opinion polls, I think they'll have to leave. The longer they stay the longer it will take to repair the damage. Being in this coalition has hurt them hugely. They've destroyed two decades of careful building in two years. Indeed, it might well be more than that. As a political force in the House of Commons it looks like they're finished for a while after the next election. How long it takes to rebuild will depend on how forgiving the British people are and that'll depend on how long they stay. What do they even have to show for it? A laughably failed referendum on AV that even the strongest proponents of electoral reform (such as myself), found hard to justify, and House of Lords reform that I also hope fails miserably.
Challenger1978
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Skashion said:Doomed? No. Collapse is not inevitable. However I think it's likely and would put a timeframe of less than eighteen months on it. If in eighteen months the Liberal Democrats are still polling around 10% in opinion polls, I think they'll have to leave. The longer they stay the longer it will take to repair the damage. Being in this coalition has hurt them hugely. They've destroyed two decades of careful building in two years. Indeed, it might well be more than that. As a political force in the House of Commons it looks like they're finished for a while after the next election. How long it takes to rebuild will depend on how forgiving the British people are and that'll depend on how long they stay. What do they even have to show for it? A laughably failed referendum on AV that even the strongest proponents of electoral reform (such as myself), found hard to justify, and House of Lords reform that I also hope fails miserably.
What are the odds on the the Liberals and Conservatives joining up permanently ? IIRC that has happened in the past when there has been a coalition government.
Bill
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dont know how a total success can appear "doomed" but i do know we'd be doomed if labour were anywhere near number ten.
Challenger1978
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de niro said:dont know how a total success can appear "doomed" but i do know we'd be doomed if labour were anywhere near number ten.
I agree with you about Labour they IMO need to piss of in to the wilderness for at least a decade. The coalition government though well they've been bloody awful to, just not to the extremes of Labour government yet.
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I'm sure the op has made this exact thread before
Feed-The-Goat
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Those pesky kids..
gordondaviesmoustache
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Be careful what you wish for.
Without the calming hand of the Lib Dems the Tories would run amok. If the Conservatives had won in 2010 things would be far, far worse in terms of social policy etc..
Without the calming hand of the Lib Dems the Tories would run amok. If the Conservatives had won in 2010 things would be far, far worse in terms of social policy etc..
Skashion
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They won't win the next election though so ASAP'll do for me.gordondaviesmoustache said:Be careful what you wish for.
Without the calming hand of the Lib Dems the Tories would run amok. If they'd won in 2010 things would be far, far worse in terms of social policy etc..