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>I take it people agree that a minority government is useless ?
No, mainly those that have something to lose from it.
Or too dim to realise that it can work otherwise.
There *are* 'poor' examples of coalition governments, but IMO they just reflect the diversity of the population they represent (or to put it another way, they get the government they deserve).
If the bunch of twunts in the uk realise that they have to work together, so much the better - surely Parliament's there to act on a balance of opinions, rather than toeing the party line all the time.
Clegg can't just sidle with who he wants AFAIK
He has to get the agreement of his MPs & then the committee that runs the party have to agree & after all that, the party membership have to agree
so it's not Clegg's executive choice
I do hope they form a government with the Tories, it'll pull itself apart as they're just too fundamentally different
The Libs - as a whole - are are lot more left wing than the parties image & the Tories are a lot more right wing than [I once met a black man] Dave & Gideon would have you believe
Sounds like the perfect storm to me 🙂
Given the current numbers, a LabLib coalition will be too weak
so ...
let the Tories have it for a year or so, it'll finish them off for another generation with any luck
Although I suspect that the Libs will [as ever] sit on the fence wringing their hands on this one
Some interesting analysis of the vote over the last 80 years: http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2010/05/trends-in-the-british-general-election-are-no-surprise-part-2.html