Proportional representation would be a good step. However I think the pro and anti European elements of this new coalition will come to loggerheads at some stage in the future. Whether its days, months or years won't matter, I'm pretty sure it will happen.

On the bright side atleast Terry Jones is GORN! 

If anything this might actually split the Liberal Democrat party, but that split started a few years back with the publication of the Orange Book.

When it was published the Orange Book was first published it was pretty detested by the majority of the party membership as it generally argued that the Liberal Democrats should adopt more market liberal or classical liberal type policies. Basically the book was buried by the then party leadership; but there were a few individuals including myself, Mark Littlewood & Ed Joyce who championed the book. In fact the first time I met Ed he was waving a copy of the Orange book in one hand & Js Mill’s On Liberty in his other & I remember saying YES! a man who thinks like me.

One of the essays in the Orange Book was written by David Laws & its noteworthy because it argued in favour of what could be considered as the voucher system for healthcare provision. David Laws is now in charge of public spending cuts & in fact those Liberal Democrats who have cabinets posts are all from the Orange Book wing of the party.

I’ve said on more then one occasion that it was time that the social democrats who’d existed on the left of the party pack their bags & go back from whence they came….the Labour Party. Well this coalition might very well spur that to happen, I heard that yesterday the Labour Party website crashed due to the large number of people signing up, I’d imagine with in that number there will be disaffected Lib Dem supporters & voters. I’m certain that those voters who are progressive in nature who voted Lib Dem in the past will now punish the Lib Dems at future elections in response to the Lib Dems going into coalition with the Tories.

What’s amazing is that the kind of market liberalism that many in the party only a few years back ridiculed  & its market liberalism & those who advocated it that have prevailed.

I’ve now resigned from the party due to a moment of clarity.

It occurred to me that all political parties are generally obsessed with is winning elections 7 I’m not interested in winning elections rather get very causes taken seriously. I know some argue that unless you get into power then you can’t do much, yeah that’s the problem because if you rock the boat in service of advocating for various causes you believe in then the political party you’re a member of will expel you, despite the base philosophy that political party was founded upon dictating what you advocate for.

I’m way too much of a free spirit to be told I shouldn’t be say etc encase it ruins election chances.