Tom Harris doesn’t much care for the Liberal Democrats:
Having seen the damage done to the Labour Party through its association with the Liberals in the Scottish Parliament in previous years, there is, if anything, more hostility among MPs to the idea of power sharing than ever. On the other hand, if the Liberal Party want to sign up to the implementation of Labour’s manifesto in the aftermath of the election, fine. So long as they don’t expect either Labour or Tory MPs to agree to a change in the electoral system so that every possible outcome in future would result in the Liberals being in government.
Now I’m as fond of Lib-Dem bashing as the next fellow, but is it really true that Labour lost the last Scottish election because it had been hamstrung by its junior coalition partner? I think not.
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