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I'd like to cite the Lib Dems at this point.
They were a party with an ideology. They wanted meaningful change and spent 30 years carefully convincing the electorate of this.
Then they started seeing that they might actually get some power and focused on that as the goal rather than their ideology.
So they sold out and went into a coalition with the Tories.
It didn't go well.
Sorry but what a load of tosh. 1) Until Labour moved right they have always been more naturally alined with the Conservatives. 2) they were still a tiny party despite their short lived success with no chance of holding power. 3) You can clearly see now they've gone the extent to which they kept the Torys in check. 4) it really wasn't as bad as all the bedwetting Lib Dem supporters made out. They couldn't grasp that they were a minority party in a coalition.
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I'd like to cite the Lib Dems at this point.
They were a party with an ideology. They wanted meaningful change and spent 30 years carefully convincing the electorate of this.
Then they started seeing that they might actually get some power and focused on that as the goal rather than their ideology.
So they sold out and went into a coalition with the Tories.
It didn't go well.
They will now have to spend the next 30 years reconvincing us.
I'd rather Labour started the long job of doing it properly now, so at least my children stand a chance of a fair country. If they battle for the popular vote just to win another term or two nothing will ever change.
That's the problem with us as a country - everything is too short term. Our companies are the same - it's all PLCs out for this year's profit rather than privately owned firms out to build something long-term.
I might move to somewhere Scandewegian. Or Germany.