Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
On that PaulB - the LibDems have proved they cannot be trusted to stick by an agreement.
In the coalition agreement a referendum on electoral change was agreed in return for support for boundary changes. The LibDems had their referendum and lost it so now they are linking Lords reform to it. The coalition agreement did not include a firm pledge to bring in Lords reform at all, only an agreement to investigate it. In the end Clegg brought forward some proposals that offered the worse of all worlds and were unsupportable.
We will just have to see where this all leads and only time will tell.
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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Louise Mensch certainly enjoys the limelight. She is a very strong character and frighteningly quick-witted, but she has been a very good MP for her constituency especially the Corby part of it. A lot of people will be very sorry to see her go.
If the Lib-Dems do manage to prevent boundary changes going ahead we are stuck with a very unfair system where Labour need far fewer votes to win an overall majority than the Tories. Whatever yor politics that cannot be right in a modern democracy. The Lib-Dems come out of this very badly and you wonder whether any party would want to form a coalition with them in the future, but of course it will all be forgotten in the chase for power.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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summed up in your last line judith, "the chase for power"!!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The letters are awfully nice, and useful in so many ways;many things meriting a mench. I suppose the non-disclosure clause etc. will be dealt with under separate cover, however I wish both mutually adoring persons the very best post-parting.
Still, there will have been much grist accrued for the Chick-Lit mill from her time in the job.
Dave is the very stuff of Bodice-Ripper-Hero material, I guess.
The future holds much press for Corby.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.