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The problem is if the Con/Lib coalition works then come the next Election they wont be able to knock each other and both parties would have to screw Labour, of course if it all falls apart then Labour will become the beneficiaries, interesting times !wink!

There are many problems for Clegg to consider that he may have over-looked in his scramble for power...

Firstly he won't have his usual 2 questions at PMQs, though he may at times have to stand up, in his role as Deputy Prime Minister, and defend Tory policy that he is intrinsically against.

What happens in bye-elections? Will the two coalition parties fight each other? That could well put a strain on local party activists as well as at national party level.

What happens at the next General Election? You'll have the two parties blaming each other for any and all failures, but claiming sole responsibility for any successes. The electorate will get confused and think, sod it, I'm voting Labour!

What about on programmes like Newsnight? Traditionally there's always been one from each of the three parties arguing the toss. However, to avoid any pro-government bias being leveled at programme makers, only one from the Tory/Lib Dem coalition will be invited in to argue with the person from Labour. I bet most of the time it'll be a Tory, not a Lib Dem, thereby marginalising them. After a while, the Lib Dems will get less and less air time on television and radio and will more and more be perceived as Tories under a different label by many.

So, when the next election comes around, the tactical vote for many will no longer be vote Lib Dem to keep Labour/the Tories out (depending on your political preference and the constituency you live in), but instead we'll see disaffected Lib Dems voting Labour to keep the Tories out, with the result that the Lib Dems will return to the 10/12 seats of the 1960s and 1970s

I was at Westminster yesterday on the green watching the media circus where most channels were doing there outside broadcast from, and there was no shortage of MPs both past and present from all parties all trying to get their views accross including previous members of the cabinet, and it struck me as to what a slimey lot of characters most of them appeared to be, and most of the TV presenters appeared to have their heads stuck up their own arses with the exception of ITNs Tom Bradby who did take the time to chat to the public between broadcast.

The best comment so far was from Boris Johnson, when he was interviewed this morning.

He described the coalition as being like a cross between a bulldog and a chihuahua.

I have just been reading this, i dont think that you can draw parallels with the 1930s but it is interesting.

planeterotica wrote:

> I have just been reading this, i dont think that you can draw
> parallels with the 1930s but it is interesting.
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The simple fact is that recessions are cyclical. And just as boom times follow recessions, so recessions follow boom times. It's the price we have to pay for being in a mainly capitalist free-market economy.

A Con/Lib Dem coalition won't be the reason why we come out of recession... we would anyway! In some ways the laws of economics are similar to some of the laws of physics. For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction... for every boom there's a bust!