This Coalition will fall within two years but by Tory back benchers

rump Lib Dem party will then try to kiss and make up to Miliband

The coalition that now governs Britain is not the one that this newspaper wanted.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/18/coalition-first-100-days-verdict

I am sure the Guardian, like me, did not quite expect this.

And when I read it I still find it reasonably centre-left. I’d soon take it over something like the Daily Mail any day!

I didn’t vote Lib Dem (thank goodness!), but if I did I would probably be more than a bit annoyed.

They have been found out, and are paying the price. If they have any principles, pull out of the coalition, and lets have another election.

And, yes, I think Harman has done a good job as acting leader, and am surprised she isn’t standing.

The idea that the Labour party will become part of the lunatic left wing fringe is an amusing rightwing fantasy that assumes the Labour party is any more than moderately left wing in the first place!

An all-too-plausible vision of the future, and a reminder of what uneasy alliances our main parties represent. You have the economically and socially liberal Right split between the LibDems and Tories – the Tory lot in an uneasy alliance with social conservatives, the LibDem lot in an uneasy alliance with social democrats, but looking all too comfortable in each others’ company in government. Then you have the social democratic centre-left split between Labour and the LibDems.

Could we end up with a traditional Conservative Party breaking away from the Libertarian coalition crowd on one side (perhaps absorbing UKIP in the process), and the SDP tradition extracting itself from the LibDems on the other (perhaps being absorbed by Labour in the process) – effectively creating a permanent split on the Right mirroring the split we’ve had on the Left for the past thirty years? Or could the LibDems’ right wing just get absorbed into the Tory Party, leaving an even bigger right-wing party opposing Labour and a separate, centre-left LibDem rump? Or, if we get PR, do we end up with lots of little parties competing to be seen as the ‘true’ successors to the big parties we know and love? Fun times ahead one way or another, I suspect.