...but it is still a shame for both parties. I am no huge fan of Tory policies (it's more a case of really detesting Labour as an ideology), but this was a slap in the face for the Coalition as a whole, and to an extent for Cam and Nick personally. The less gloomy commentators still say that if this were a general election, both turnout and voting results would have been different (ie less disastrous), but I don't know if it would have helped the Lib Dems much, or just improved the Tory-Labour balance :/
Then again, on the morbid entertainment front, there are Andy and Rebecca to indulge in this week...
I think it's more a reflection of peoples' general unhappiness - which is understandable considering inflation, unemployment, lack of growth, etc - than any specific dislike of tories or libdems or coalitions. If the numbers in the 2010 election had been different and labour had managed to hang onto power, I don't think our economic situation would be any different right now. And it would have been labour who'd just been punished in the local elections. Such is politics. But the tories will survive this; I wish I was sure the Lib Dems would.
Apparently there's another Nick-and-David press conference today. Rose Garden II. Only with less smiling and no jokes. Sigh. I miss 2010 :(
I agree that it is general unhappiness, and very much agree that Labour would have been in the shitter if they'd won, but voters like finding scapegoats. Shame.
I actually put up a heads-up post about today's event on Clameron last week. It is at 3:30 today "at a factory in Essex", a long way from the Rose Garden... but I've also promised to post pictures on Clameron, such as they may be, provided that I find them. And of course Miliband has tried to upstage them by having a Q&A in Essex (Harlow) right now, the fucker.
Today's Guardian quotes the Times with a really mixed bag of bad and good tnings concerning the Coalition, or Nick and David specifically:
Senior Liberal Democrats believe that the party may have to withdraw from government early to avoid being wiped out at the next general election, The Times has learnt
( ... )
I missed the press conf, was out, but having looked through your post and the one on the main comm and I'm not sure I even want to watch it. Having said that, even if there isn't the trust/camaraderie there was in the past, both of them seem recognise the need to maintain a good relationship, even against the advice of their own parties.
Interestingly, though Nick has been a political dead-man-walking for many months now, it's looking more and more likely that Cameron doesn't have much of a future either. The Leveson inquiry has damaged him, and that's even before he's had his own day in the chair. If we end up in a situation where both of the men running the country have, career-wise, nothing to lose... unexpected and interesting things might happen. We can hope :)
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...but it is still a shame for both parties. I am no huge fan of Tory policies (it's more a case of really detesting Labour as an ideology), but this was a slap in the face for the Coalition as a whole, and to an extent for Cam and Nick personally. The less gloomy commentators still say that if this were a general election, both turnout and voting results would have been different (ie less disastrous), but I don't know if it would have helped the Lib Dems much, or just improved the Tory-Labour balance :/
Then again, on the morbid entertainment front, there are Andy and Rebecca to indulge in this week...
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Apparently there's another Nick-and-David press conference today. Rose Garden II. Only with less smiling and no jokes. Sigh. I miss 2010 :(
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I actually put up a heads-up post about today's event on Clameron last week. It is at 3:30 today "at a factory in Essex", a long way from the Rose Garden... but I've also promised to post pictures on Clameron, such as they may be, provided that I find them. And of course Miliband has tried to upstage them by having a Q&A in Essex (Harlow) right now, the fucker.
Today's Guardian quotes the Times with a really mixed bag of bad and good tnings concerning the Coalition, or Nick and David specifically:
Senior Liberal Democrats believe that the party may have to withdraw from government early to avoid being wiped out at the next general election, The Times has learnt ( ... )
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Interestingly, though Nick has been a political dead-man-walking for many months now, it's looking more and more likely that Cameron doesn't have much of a future either. The Leveson inquiry has damaged him, and that's even before he's had his own day in the chair. If we end up in a situation where both of the men running the country have, career-wise, nothing to lose... unexpected and interesting things might happen. We can hope :)
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