I am a member of the Liberal Democrats, but have Labour and Green sympathies so please read this in that light.

I have many reservations over our new coalition.

However, what were the alternatives (from my point of view):

Lib Lab: emotionally attractive to me, but a non-starter.
*The maths didn't add up.
*Many Labour bigwigs were not happy.
*Propping up a failing government would not wash with the public.

Con Minority Givernment
*Cameron would have stumbled on, but called an election saying he needed a clear mandate, and got one. A scary thought (for me)

Lib-Con
*Given the election results, the only viable outcome.
*Key Lib Dem policies will make it to the statute book- they would not have made it any other way. If you voted Lib Dem you didn't vote for Cameron. You voted Lib Dem and for the first time in decades you get Lib Dem policies taken seriously.
*You have to take some hits, but in the grand scheme of things Labour would not have given us much more.

just my thoughts.

Good post and sums it all up very well.