Uncomfortable yet Unavoidable!

Posted 23 Jul 2010 by Walaa Idris

The Coalition, for those of us who are realistic, is a union between two different political parties who share one goal, and that is to deliver the best possible outcome to the country in these tough and turbulent economic times.

Anybody who thinks, it is a merger of the two parties, or it is a luxury the country can do without must not be living in the real world! Add to that list, Tories who think it would have been better going it alone as a minority government, and those LibDems who keep unpicking at the coalition pretending they could have had a better deal with Labour.

As for the notion that David Cameron is using “his coalition partners as COVER for unpopular decisions” as Tim Farron, LibDem MP told the BBC, is simply untrue. Because, even before the election was called all parties and virtually everybody in the country knew that cuts were coming and unpopular decisions were on their way. The only people who pretended cut are avoidable was Labour politicians. After 13 years they knew they were on their way out and had nothing to lose dreaming wild and promising the impossible!

For Mr Farron to describe the Coalition as a “poor ideological fit” is juvenile. Because we know this Coalition is not an ideological partnership, or merger, it is a working relationship which both sides went into fully aware of its terms.

Many people, me included, would like to see this government work, the country recover and the economy prosper. With the Labour party and some of the media constantly unpicking everything decision before it’s even announced this government has a lot on their plate without having also to deal with disaffected Tories and LibDems biting chunks out off it.

This Coalition have great projects underway; the two parties can either go down in history as selfless patriots or wither away like many other projects in the past. In life many uncomfortable things are unavoidable!

2 comment(s)

BenS

BenS
23 Jul, 18:49

‘Poor ideological fit’ is indeed juvenile. The Lib Dems and Tories fit together than other combinations, given at least one half of each one’s manifesto is somewhat liberal. Although, I was rather hoping for the full monty of liberalism (social AND economic), but that hasn’t quite come to pass.

Shaun Pilkington

Shaun Pilkington
23 Jul, 19:04

“For Mr Farron to describe the Coalition as a “poor ideological fit” is juvenile. Because we know this Coalition is not an ideological partnership, or merger, it is a working relationship which both sides went into fully aware of its terms.”

Thank f*ck for that. We’ve had 31 years of ideological purity under Thatcher/Major and then Blair/Brown and to be honest, both tended towards excess in their respective ways.

Lets hope that common sense can break out instead of an endlessly reductive quest of ideological purity that reaches a logical conclusion only when you are on your own. Failing that, that you’ll be too busy fighting each other to pass anything like the number of legal press releases Labour did.

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