This report in today’s Guardian has created a bit of a rumpus about the possibility of Lib Dems joining Gordon Brown’s government.
And it is resoundingly quashed here.
There is no prospect of any Liberal Democrat joining the Brown Government. On so many issues, the Tories and Labour are part of a cosy consensus and Liberal Democrats are the real opposition.
Tories and Labour now agree on, to name but a few, tax breaks for the richest, the Iraq War, council tax, nuclear power and student tuition fees.
The need for a strong independent Liberal Democrat party, to challenge the cosy consensus of Labour and Conservatives has never been greater.
We need a change from this tired and discredited Labour Government and I would strongly oppose propping them up – before or after a General Election.
But we certainly don’t need Blair Lite from David Cameron either. His is a party stuck in the 1980s led by a man obsessed with the 1990s – the “heir to Blair.”
The real Conservative Party we see every day in Weston-super-Mare is obsessed with looking tough and decisive. Thirty years on they are desperate to sound like Margaret Thatcher. The media Conservative Party we see every day on tv and in the papers is obsessed with spin and appealing to everyone. Ten years on they are desperate to sound like Tony Blair.
Lib Dems should have no interest in joining this cosy consensus.
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