Very impressive; very positive; just what I wanted from my hung Parliament; Conservatism with the extremes erased, Liberalism with good practical sense added.

Now let's see if they can make it work.

By the way, isn't that dreadful "joke" ("there is no money") a terrible tombstone for New Labour? It basically says they lied to us all along and knew it.

JK2006 wrote:
It basically says they lied to us all along and knew it.

Just what I've always said ... New LIE-Bour (but why should we be surprised?)

It's also emerged that while the Brown One was saying there would be no "front line cuts" to the Health Service (knowing all the time that there would be) - senior politicians had told the NHS to "hold back" 2 Billion from last years figures to help "soften the blow" to the frontline cuts this year.

B-Liar taught them well ............

Well I voted for a Tory MP and a Lib Dem councillor in my local election and had voted for the LIBS in 1992 and 1997.

Therefore I am very happy to see a Con - Lib alliance at last in politics. A liberal approach to conservatism is a new force in UK politics and is what over 60% of the population wanted in the UK which means it has a real mandate from the people.

Labour has to change back to the core values that JOHN SMITH had in place before MANDY took the party off on an extreme Stalinist tangent. Only then will it be fit to govern again. It has almost ruined the country - we shall have to wait and see how bad things get in the next 5 years to know how badly.

I heard an interesting little snippet about the 1974 hung parliament in Radio 4's documentary Day One in No 10 last week: in a previously unbroadcast interview with Harold Wilson's rat-like press officer Joe Haines, Haines claimed that Wilson devised a plan to prevent Edward Heath from forming a coalition with Jeremy Thorpe and the Liberals. Immediately after such a coalition was announced, Wilson was going to order an underling to 'out' Thorpe to the public and stop Heath in his tracks. I'm surprised this broadcast wasn't given more coverage in the media seeing as the 1974 crisis has been discussed so much in recent weeks. I guess 'Old Labour' was as desperate as 'New Labour'.