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I have long said it, but since the topic of who, if anyone, Lib Dems might do a deal with after a General Election has once again raised its ugly head, I will say it again - doing a deal with a Labour party having been given a good kicking, but just not quite a big enough one to allow the Tories to take control on their own would be a resignation issue for me.
It is not that I like the Tories, or Labour. I think the one is arrogant but incompetent, and I am not at all sure what he other stands for except that every time they get anywhere a bunch of dinosaurs appear and lurch to the right, whatever direction their leaders might want to portray the party as following. But to shore up this multiple war-mongering, civil liberties trashing, in-denial about the state's and their role in the worst financial crisis for decades, shower of shits would be unconscionable to me.
Nearly a hundred years ago it was Labour that managed to turn the "left" over to collective coercive socialism and away from liberal free-trading mutualism. Labopur is not liberal, and never will be, as Churchill nearly said (in fact he referred to socialism rather than the Labour Party for obvious reasons - it didn't exist). There would be no pride in achieving our long desired aim of electoral reform by deliberately doing more to discredit the current system than is presently obvious to many by so crassly contradicting the message the electorate would be sending - "we need change, but we're not quite sure what type".
I realize that the whole issue is more complicated than all this, which is why I would rather the party maintained strict neutrality and equidistance ahead of an election and did not give any signals ruling out any option.
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I have a line on equidistance: -
Labour and Conservatives are both parties whose business is personality politics; LibDems trade on people power. They are two peas in a pod; we are a completely different species. So we are not equally near them, we are equally distant from both!
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