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Do you really believe that? Clegg had little option but coalition with the Conservatives, and it is clear the Lib Dems were a moderating influence. It is easy and cheap to blame the Lib Dems - what was the alternative?
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There was no alternative.
Fuck knows what the Tories would've got away with had the teaboy not been around to keep them in check.
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The alternative to the Conservative/LibDem coalition was no coalition at all. I can't understand the fear of a minority government in this country.
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A moderating influence? When? On the Bedroom Tax? On the austerity policies that Osborne enacted?
And of course he had an alternative. He could've bargained far harder with the Tories, like making PR mandatory, or he could've negotiated with Labour.
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I'd take Nick Clegg a lot more seriously if he hadn't enabled half of that.