Listening to Iain Duncan Smith on R4 this am, prepping the ground for DCs welfare speech.
Clearly the Tories are looking to position for the next election, so this got me thinking about people's verdict on the Coalition
When I was a kid / teenager, the overall view of "Joe Public" was that coaltion Govt was weak, something for the Europeans, not for us Brits...
... So, what do we all think on here. I actually think the Coaltion is a [i]stronger[/i] Govt than any of the main parties could currently bring to the table alone.
This, from the if Labour in Power thread, definately applies:
What we have now is not as bad as if the Tories won outright. Things would have been a lot worse.
The binding agreement between the Coalition parties has given the Govt some security and they genuinely seem to be a "better" Govt for working together and taking [i]some[/i] of the more ideological ideas from both sets of back bencher, activists etc.
This, from BBC's Nick Robinson, now seems a more flawed way of doing things:
...here's the sort of thing I'd want to do in three years time if you re-elect me without the need to rely on those pesky Liberals.
To my way of thinking, at least.