The excellent writer Johann Hari agrees with me :

Will the Lib Dems follow the Tories over a cliff?

at the next GE Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems will be crucified. Watch their voters flee to Labour. It will be the end of a good party.

www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato...a-cliff-2087927.html

There are surely far, far, too many imponderables for anyone to claim to know, at this stage, how things will unfold at the next election. Waiting - at least - until Labour's new leadership has fared for a year or so ought to be essential before any wild speculating starts. (But even now we can surely suspect, fairly rationally, that Clegg will either survive as a vastly more successful leader than the likes of Ashdown, Kennedy and Campbell, or he'll get a cushty job in Europe.)

The British public are not as stupid as Labour thought they were - the majority (recent poll) support the cuts, and fully understand WHY we need them !

The LibDems (and the Tories) will come out of this looking statesmanlike (meanwhile the loony Labour Party will support the barmy unions and try and finish the job they started - destroying Britain).

If they want to go on strike - let them ! - we can then sack them instead of someone else !

it's been a long time since I heard that one about unions wrecking the country. But yes-Labour have been disastrous but that's because they morphed into Tories.

what poll ?...did they poll those receiving the cuts ?

I think Clegg will have been absorbed into the Tory party long before the next general election. He and Cameron are already becoming interchangeable. You can barely tell them apart.

One of the canards that some hacks are peddling is this absurd image of the LibDem activists being horrified by the betrayal of their Party and ideology. The reality is, as anyone who's witnessed some of these characters on the campaign trail, is that they've been so desperate for power they've stooped to some of the worst dirty tricks around to undermine their opponents, so the suggestion that they're all now weeping because Clegg and Co aren't wearing sandals and knitting their own yoghurt any more is laughable. I doubt the majority will want to drag their Party back into the wilderness. If anything they will want to muscle out Labour. But many things will happen before then, so we just can't tell.

veritas wrote:
what poll ?...did they poll those receiving the cuts ?

Yes they did ..........

Asked if public spending cuts were necessary to help long-term economic recovery,
84 per cent of French people,
71 per cent of Spaniards,
69 per cent of Britons,
67 per cent of Germans and
61 per cent of Italians answered Yes.
In the US, 73 per cent of Americans agreed

The poll’s results point to a fiscal conservatism among the European public that contrasts with the eagerness with which most governments ran up high deficits to protect jobs and living standards as the crisis unfolded.

Moreover, the results suggest that the austerity measures now being introduced across Europe need not be politically fatal for governments as long as they give convincing explanations for their actions

Source - Financial Times - www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8f9e61c0-8ce2-11df-bad7-00144feab49a.html

just shows you...even the majority can get it wrong.


everyone should take my advice...spend spend spend !