John Bull's Peoples Army

Do you remember those days, not so long ago, when we were told by the Liberal Party that if only we had proportional representation, then they would be the third force and hold the whip hand in any government forming. And that like in Germany, the Liberals would then prevent the worse excesses of one of the big parties running a country on its own. Oh and incidentally the Liberals would always be in power themselves .... not that they had ever apparently noticed this fact.

Council Results Were Poor:

The Liberals Did Badly In Council Elections in 2014

Well for decades, the two main parties ignored this demand for PR, and then circumstance gave the Liberal Party its chance to show the UK what they had been banging on about. The 2010 election threw up a hung result, with the Conservatives just failing to get enough seats to rule without a coalition, an event that had only occurred in recent times in the mid 1970's. On that occasion the Liberals had resisted a coalition with Thatchers Conservatives in 1977, but opted for what was then called the 'Lib/Lab Pact' with Jim Callaghan's Labour Party. It was however not a coalition, and only amounted to not voting the minority Labour Party out of governance.

Voters Being Stitched Up

Is it just me or are we about to be stitched up by a 'deal done behind closed doors' between the minority and losing 'Liberal' party and either the Tories, or the defeated Labour party?

So much for a 'New Politics', we now have a form of kerb crawling from the Tories and Labour leaders ...... rolling down their windscreens, banging on the car doors, shouting out words of encouragement "Hey Niki baby. Come over here darlin, get into into the back seat you strumpet, Daddies got an electoral mandate for you play with!"

What's so disheartening about this is that a very small party is demonstrating exactly why the Proportional Representation system that the Liberals are so desperate for is such a disaster..... because this is exactly what would happen after every election for ever once they get their PR in place.

Except that we know that it would be a permanent 'anti Tory' (aka anti right wing, 'conservative') alliance of Labour and its Liberal Party jockey for eternity ..... how is that more 'democratic'?

Come Monday we face financial meltdown, but no deal if the Liberals will only horse trade the destruction of all right wing parties as the cost of stability...... if the Liberals are prepared to act responsibly and cooperate on other areas where we need strong government, then they would be acting as they said PR would work and advance their cause, but blackmailing us into making them the permanent power brokers of the UK just shows why so many of us fear PR.