They were really promising as a third party.Their holding the balance of power would have forced both Labour and Conservative to challenge their thinking and could have thrown up some genuinely progressive policy. Now they're trapped in the Unholy Alliance by a coalition agreement that emasculates them as far as providing any credible resistance to Tory policy goes, binds them to a strict party line on all bar a couple of issues (electoral reform being one), and undermines them completely on these issues.
Better by far a hung parliament than this...
(Better by far a hung parliament than this...
barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:23,
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