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What I'm saying is, if the parties are so afraid of losing votes in the next election, they won't be willing to enter a coalition. And then there is no majority.
If I was the Lib Dems, and the Conservatives had needed 8 more seats this time, there is no way I would have entered coalition again. It would have been a death sentence.
I think that's only because this particular coalition was so utterly bizarre that it was felt to be a betrayal by Lib Dem supporters. An outlier case that, you're right, wouldn't happen again, but other coalitions would very much happen.
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I don't think it was necessarily the coalition aspects that did for the LibDems, more the lying about tuition fees. I actually have some (limited) sympathy for Clegg's contention that they moderated some of the worst bits of the Tory government - human rights and snoopers charters spring to mind. Although they did wave some other bits through...
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Oliver Schick
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What I'm saying is, if the parties are so afraid of losing votes in the next election, they won't be willing to enter a coalition. And then there is no majority.
If I was the Lib Dems, and the Conservatives had needed 8 more seats this time, there is no way I would have entered coalition again. It would have been a death sentence.
I'm not saying it's a reason not to have it, I'm just don't think it will come as naturally to this country.
Yes, I agree, UKIP would probably end up like AFD, narrowly missing out