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Well, I can't speak for anyone else Gully, but Tora and I were discussing our differences, no arguments from either side so far as I can tell. Maybe your problem is that you see any contrary opinion as an argument?
20:00 Thu 27th Aug 2020
I personally think the lib dem supporters treated Clegg appallingly. The lib dems, a protest party, found themselves in power, people like Clegg and Danny Alexander stepped up and did a Stirling job recognising they had to help run the country and make hard decisions.
Unfortunately their supporters remained as protesters and clearly didnt understand the situation the Party was in.
Gone really downhill since then, a total laughing stock.
Unfortunately their supporters remained as protesters and clearly didnt understand the situation the Party was in.
Gone really downhill since then, a total laughing stock.
We can argue the toss on that one until the cows come home, I'm sure, but it didn't help either, no. On the other hand, if the LibDems had decided to embrace Brexit, would you have been any more likely to vote for them? I'd assume not, as, let's face it, you'd have been right not to believe them. A pro-EU Party sticking to a pro-Eu position was, at least, honest.
The dominant problem that was exposed in 2010-15 was that the LibDems were too Tory for Labour voters, and too Labour for the Tories. Oh, yes, and the disaster of the Student Tuition Fees, which basically destroyed the core of their support almost overnight.
Actually, the entire story of the Coalition saddens me. It was the first time in a while that two parties were working together openly, and the effect has been to destroy the prospects of cooperation between any parties for the foreseeable future.
The dominant problem that was exposed in 2010-15 was that the LibDems were too Tory for Labour voters, and too Labour for the Tories. Oh, yes, and the disaster of the Student Tuition Fees, which basically destroyed the core of their support almost overnight.
Actually, the entire story of the Coalition saddens me. It was the first time in a while that two parties were working together openly, and the effect has been to destroy the prospects of cooperation between any parties for the foreseeable future.
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In the time I was typing that I see that ymb added a post about how LibDem supporters "treated Clegg [and, I suppose, the party as a whole] appallingly". I just wanted to say that I agree with that. If the Coalition represented anything it was pragmatism. Perhaps the LibDems should, instead, have gone into a softer partnership (Confidence and Supply) with the Tories rather than a full Coalition, but those were their only viable choices, and it was simply unreasonable to pretend otherwise.
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