So: At a time of unprecedented market failure (financial, environmental), we have a government of deregulators. At a time when the state has saved the day (for now) financially, and is a key part of our only hope environmentally, we have a government of 'savage' cutters. At a time when we supposedly live in a classless societies, we have a government of toffs who believe that they were 'born to rule' (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7664461/David-Cameron-born-to-be-prime-minister.html ). And at a time when proportional representation was at last within reach, all we are going to be offered is the dismal half-way house of AV.
Millions voted to keep the Tories out - and the LibDems have voted them in. Voters won't forget that betrayal.
And Labour let this happen, shamefully, by abandoning the chance of a 'progressive alliance'. They could have stopped the Tories, as I've been arguing on this blog these past several days - they have CHOSEN not to. Shame on them.
What would Mercutio say?...
...Anyway: It's going to be a long long haul. The fightback begins here. I'm proud to be a Green tonight; and ashamed of the failed political system we live in, and of the useless politicians who are swapping from the Government to the Opposition benches and vice versa. Who are leading us to economic and environmental disaster.
Yes, I'm not a happy bunny tonight. And the most probable future for our country and our world is, I fear, grim. The only consolation is that all three Parties have disgraced themselves (apart from the Tories, who were a disgrace already), and so there may be good times ahead for genuinely oppositional voices, who have got it right, such as the Green Party. Unlike the others, we didn't lose Thursday's election - we broke through, for the first time.
And we are going to be needed more than ever.
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and i never said you claimed to have had Norwich South...you merely implied it...on more than one occasion.
GS
I actually think it is better to have the Lib Dems in government, trying (in vain, probably) to stop the excesses of the Tories, rather than a minority Tory government. Yes the latter could've been brought down much sooner than the former, but who is to say the voters wouldn't then just give the Tories a majority?
The real villains are Labour. The Lib Dems wanted the Progressive Alliance. Labour torpedoed it.
The SNP and Greens will probably take their seats.
It's not about being 'a bad loser' - it's about being deeply dismayed at the choices our political 'leaders' have made, which will harm our common future severely.
No-one has the right to form a minority government if there is a grouping of MPs which forms a majority. Before the LibDems agreed to go into coalition that could have happened.
Even if no majority were possible it is also possible that the Labour and LibDems could have formed a minority grouping larger than the Conservatives.
Especially as we are going to be proved so right, in the next few years.
As the Green Party (lonelily) has repeatedly pointed out - we don't need huge cuts, because we have huge assets (RBS, anyone?), if we only invest for economic staibility (via a Green New Deal, that over time would pay for itself by saving money hand over fist through cutting back on waste).
Don't buy the neoliberal 'savage cuts' line - that Clegg & Cameron are about to impose on you as a 'necessity'.