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    courtesy of the independent, judging by this piece the coalition is planned to be a permanent one.

    Nick Clegg is facing a Liberal Democrat rebellion after endorsing another two years of public spending cuts following the next general election.

    Some Liberal Democrat ministers and MPs fear that the party's attempt to have a distinctive appeal at the next election will be wrecked by George Osborne's announcement in his Autumn Statement on Tuesday that planned spending will fall by £8.3bn in 2015-16 and £15.1bn in 2016-17.

    Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, a close ally of the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary, Vince Cable, said: "We Lib Dems signed a five-year Coalition Agreement, not a seven-year one.
    "If we are seen to be chained to the Tory mast past 2015, it will kill our chances of fighting the next election as a genuinely independent force, able to form a coalition with whoever the people decide."

    The peer said "alarm bells are starting to ring" and recalled that the National Liberals who joined the Conservatives in a coalition in the 1930s were "hugged to death".
    He added: "At the last election, 38 of our 57 seats were won against the Tories. In many cases, there had been quite a high Labour vote we had to squeeze. If Labour voters are not prepared to vote tactically for us next time, we are going to lose many of these seats to the Tories."

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