Sunday 8 March 2015

Seeing Red, Feeling Blue?

Whenever Ed Miliband is mocked for something, then it turns out to be something very popular that powerful people do not want.

As for coalition with the Conservative Party, I neither want it nor expect it, but why is it a singularly objectionable proposition?

How, in principle, would it be any worse than coalition with the Lib Dems, or than coalition with the SNP?

The SNP had everything short of a coalition with the Conservatives for four years. The Lib Dems have of course been in coalition with the Conservatives for the last five years.

Neither is noted for loving, or for being loved by, the Labour Party. Their deals with the Conservatives were in both cases specifically in order to keep Labour out of office.

The basically Old Labour SDLP and the basically Old Tory UUP are permanent participants in the government of Northern Ireland according to a system that they very largely designed between them.

And formal coalitions between Labour and the Conservatives are quite common in local government, while informal arrangements of that kind are routine.

Not German Christian Democrats and German Social Democrats.

The British Conservative Party and the British Labour Party.

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