I'm not so sure that PR really is there for the taking. The backbench Tories are vehemently against it. (As why should they not be? They'd lose many of their seats, and the Tories have more safe seats than all other parties put together, so, like Smaug losing a golden cup, the prospect has them all the more incensed.) And Cameron can't make them go along with it, any more than Heath could have in '74. In fact, it appears that most Tories are furious at their leader, for failing to achieve a majority win in an election they saw as a sure bet.
I'm actually amused at how panicked many Lib Dems are at the possibility of a coalition with the Conservatives. I have no love for the Conservatives either, but if you support what is, in practice, a third party, and you don't want to just remain in opposition permanently, and you don't want to devolve into an appendage to Labour (as the Australian National Party is to their Liberals on the federal level), then working with the Conservatives is something that's going to happen occasionally. You can't practice inclusive politics and tabernacle politics at the same time.
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Date: 2010-05-09 03:59 pm (UTC)I'm actually amused at how panicked many Lib Dems are at the possibility of a coalition with the Conservatives. I have no love for the Conservatives either, but if you support what is, in practice, a third party, and you don't want to just remain in opposition permanently, and you don't want to devolve into an appendage to Labour (as the Australian National Party is to their Liberals on the federal level), then working with the Conservatives is something that's going to happen occasionally. You can't practice inclusive politics and tabernacle politics at the same time.