Alex Massie Alex Massie

A Text for Dave and Nick

Hold hands, gentlemen, and say together:

Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

And this, as I suggested a long 36 hours ago, is what it’s all about and why this agreement needs to be for a full parliament:

[T]he stakes in this game are much higher than the question of who wins what and who gives what up in the next few days, weeks and months. There is – no, there may be – an opportunity for Cameron to redraw the map in such a fashion that the Tories could be the “natural” party of government for years to come and that far from achieving the occasionally-dreamt-of “reunification” of the liberal and labour movements British politics will be dominated by the centre-right instead.

Granted, this is looking some way ahead and granted to it would require enormous boldness, no small measure of bravery and considerable imagination to achieve.


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