Of course the LDs are rooked without PR, and they're not going to get it from the Tories. One would hope that Nick Clegg's political instincts are at least as good as Jeremy Thorpe's, for goodness sake. In fact, I wonder what negotiations could possibly still be going on. In my view, the C-LD meeting should last about five minutes, and consist of Nick saying, "So tell me, Dave, can you deliver PR? And by 'PR' I don't mean AV. And by 'deliver' I don't mean a commission or a committee or a conference to discuss it. We've done that. I mean a bill with an enforced three-line whip." And when Dave replies, "You know I can't do that," Nick stands up, says, "Nice talking to you," and leaves, to make a call at Number Ten.
But the panicky Lib Dems I'm thinking of are not expressing themselves in the form of worry about a PR sellout. They're just opposed to the Tories. Period.
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Date: 2010-05-09 07:28 pm (UTC)But the panicky Lib Dems I'm thinking of are not expressing themselves in the form of worry about a PR sellout. They're just opposed to the Tories. Period.