Well here you have it.
The LibDems finally said after an almost obscene amount of persuading that they wanted to talk to the Party with the most votes and seats, but we now see they also hedge their bets by talking with the second place Party.
This appears to be not respecting the will of the people, but trying to get into power, the arrogance of presuming they know the National Interest at such a time.
One could call it "A Dream of the Red Boxes".
The Conservatives come out with a counter offer after being bounced into it. This was triggered by Gordon Brown in typical form. He has performed a "suicide bombing" of the Conservatives' deal with his offer of self immolation. Even in the midst of such an attack, he is disingenuous in his "resignation" - only if he strikes a deal and even then he has 4 or so more months to wreak havoc and agree to all manner of International albatrosses for the incoming administration. And what of that? Imagine it, the new Labour leader has to take over a done deal. Gordon gets his bitten fingernails into the next phase of Labour's existence and the new Leader begins with second hand clothes.
I do suspect that the reputation of the Lib Dems, who spent not an inconsiderable time saying they were being straight and wanted "a new kind of politics", is significantly dented at best. The Conservatives and Labour do not fare better. What this does do is show the public what can happen with our current batch of politicians who are constrained by the inertia of the policy boundaries set down by the three main parties. How long this will survive or be tolerated by the public is an interesting question.
If this is simply about getting a referendum on PR, then so be it, though one suspects we would need a referendum on the voting mechanism used to determine the referendum on the voting mechanism!
But what I suspect we will now see is a revealing, the falling of scales from the eyes of the pubic on the nature of those they trusted with their vote. When you include the Eurozone problems, the deficit and debt issues ignored and the unaffordable Big State Welfarism and Corporatism, a reckoning will be made when all the false promises are laid bare.
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.
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So politics is going from shabby to disgusting and is being laid bare for all to see.
Will the electorate take note and eventually punish accordingly? Probably not, most voters are like sheep and will have decided that their party are in the right and the rest are in the wrong regardless of the facts. Apart from which the UK political machine is set up so that democracy is a meaningless word so that those in parliament are defacto our overloads and immune from retribution.
I find it faintly amusing that it is exactly those in the comentariat who claim to be the standard bearers for competition and free markets who are pouring most vitriol upon the current political negotiations.
Hint: what we're seeing is simply the result of a competitive position, with all involved willing to change their value propositions to best benefit themselves and their customers.
Morlock,
markets require transparency, contract. These people have been hypocritical and disingenuous.
You don't expect to hire a builder who then brings in the builder you rejected in the tendering process to do some of the work in a contract that only gives them a break clause.
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