Cameron and Clegg’s love-in deepens

Verity

At least Clegg has he sense of propriety to wear a jacket in a formal situation.

TGF UKIP

The Coalition has given Dave what he and The Mekon dreamed about, but never dared hope would come true - a non right wing government but with him as Leader.

Guido posted about this Conference idea a few days ago and I would agree with him that it's a daft idea. As daft, in fact, as agreeing to the three way televised debates.
I really look forward, though, to seeing Disaster Dave booed and slow handclapped by the LibDems, though really it's his own party who should be giving him that treatment.

Mycroft

If they were incapable of saying something meaningful at one another's party conferences, the coalition could hardly have much substance. And I do think it has a meaningful basis, in bringing about a form of politics which I find more appealing than anything that we have had for years. Even though I didn't find the idea of a coalition at all appealing before the election. LD activists can't afford to be sniffy about the accommodations that are needed in a coalition, it is they who are seeking to change the electoral system to make it more likely that they will hold the balance of power in the future.

Edmund Jerk

I could imagine Cameron at a Lib-Dem conference - he'd fit right in.

davidk

Good grief. Please make this stop.

Widmerpool

These two guys are a pair of Whig Toffs and people in both of their parties are outside their comfort zones with them! October time is going to be a big challenge if things fall apart perhaps Brown in his deluded state thinks he is a De Gaulle type figure waiting in Kircaldy[sic] surely that is enough to persuade even the most boneheaded in Lib and Con Parties to give the Boys a chance!

Fergus Pickering

On the contrary, make it go on, even if only to terminlly piss off people like davidk and TGF UKIP.

porkbelly

Is anyone else reminded, when considering Clegg and Cameron, of the denizens of the Ark Ship in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - the management consultants, phone sanitizers, hairdresser's assistants and so on? If they vanished tomorrow would it really all come crashing down?

Mark Cannon

"Many left-leaning Tories": Are there many? I doubt it.

2trueblue

The media are really loving the possibility that it is all going to fall apart. Get real, they are doing their best and we know what the alternative is, Balls or the 2Millies. Take you pick.
So far the coalition is functioning and I am not happy about a lot of concessions made for the Lib Dems, but in the event it is preferable to having to suffer Liebore in any shape or form.
A lot of people are going to have to swallow their pride and prejudices for some years so that we survive. And we will will, because we are worth it!! Liebore did a great job of wrecking anything decent in the UK, increasing child poverty, lowering standards in nearly every area of our lives and practically bankrupting the country.
The BBC and the media are still on the case.

Verity

2 True Blue: "A lot of people are going to have to swallow their pride and prejudices for some years so that we survive. And we will will, because we are worth it!!"

Oh, really? Then how do you explain the sentence following that above? "Liebore did a great job of wrecking anything decent in the UK, increasing child poverty, lowering standards in nearly every area of our lives and practically bankrupting the country."

Do you seriously think we "have survived"?

Commentator

It's no surprise that they get on fine. They, Osborne and Huhne are hereditary members of the self-perpetuating caste which hates meritocracy and which has misgoverned the UK for many decades.

Teepee

The Dave and Nick show has a good chance of making it through to year 5 but what of the supporting cast? They will be the ones to bear the brunt of the unrest which is surely just round the corner. And it will be a tough job to sell austerity, especially when many actively campaigned against some element of the current plan. My money's on the show moving from the early evening light entertainment slot to the bedtime political analysis guaranteed to send you to sleep zone by the end of the first term. Survive they probably will, but will the voters still be sufficiently awake to notice?

Tarka the Rotter

I'm still waiting for the Bonfire of the Quangos and the rolling back of all that anti-democratic anti-libertarian legislation of the Liebore Years. The debt and deficit are the government's debt and deficit - not ours - so they should be whittling back on all the things the state does but should not do before they put up taxes and make the rest of us pay more.

Verity

You and me both, Tarka. What quangoes, of the 1,300 plus, have gone so far? How many of their employed leeches have been cast out onto the rocky shores of job-seeking? How much has been saved on rent and utilities for premises?

Cameron, we await your response.

Archie

The frightening thing is, though, how many members of the public and the commentariat think that the Cleggeroons are "doing alright", with no mention of ditched principles by either party or the electorate not getting what they - somewhat indecisively - voted for. Which I suppose is the reason for the general acceptance of the state of affairs in which we now find ourselves.

Nik D

I didn't catch yellow fever. I sneezed and the rest of the party caught it.