I should have been clearer. I don't believe the Tories will give the Lib Dems PR either; but the Labour Party almost certainly would, at this stage. Of course, that alliance wouldn't be sufficient to form a majority in the House of Commons, but for a vote on a PR referendum they could probably count on the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Greens, and maybe some of the Northern Irish MPS. Then they'd squeak it.
You're right that the Lib Dems would probably have to work with the Tories some time under PR, and shouldn't be afraid of that as such. But that should be after they get reform, not instead of it. If they haven't learned from last Thursday that as a third party under the current system their vote is always going to get squeezed like a lemon, they don't deserve any better.
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Date: 2010-05-09 04:23 pm (UTC)You're right that the Lib Dems would probably have to work with the Tories some time under PR, and shouldn't be afraid of that as such. But that should be after they get reform, not instead of it. If they haven't learned from last Thursday that as a third party under the current system their vote is always going to get squeezed like a lemon, they don't deserve any better.