I am very struck by the suggestion floated byLord Tebbit and expanded by Fraser Nelson that David Cameron may be moving towards an outright merger with the LibDems. This clearly wasn’t part of some long-gestated strategic plan; I gather that on the morning after the general election which Cameron failed to win, he was totally undecided about his best course of action. But clearly he saw no overriding problem with the non-negotiable condition laid down by Nick Clegg for joining the coalition, that there had to be a move towards some kind of proportional representation system -- albeit the...Tuesday, 6th July 2010
A realignment of British politics?
11:45am
Reports that Labour MPs are joining forces with Tory ‘right-wingers’ to fight the Coalition’s proposal to gerrymander Britain’s voting system into favouring the LibDems merely adds to the sense that politics in Britain has been turned upside down.
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Posted by Britannia Radio at 08:50