LDV’s Sunday Best: our 7 most-read articles this week

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Liberal Democrat Manifesto – detailed costings published (12 comments) by Paul Walter

Poll sensation for Jo Swinson (54 comments) by Caron Lindsay

That’s not how we used to do politics in the Highlands: SNP candidate takes supporters on aggressive visit to Charles Kennedy’s office (40 comments) by Caron Lindsay

The regret of voting yes (38 comments) by Jenny Wilson

Nick Clegg’s BBC1 interview – Evan Davis disappoints with constant references to Clegg’s multi-national background (50 comments) by Caron Lindsay

The truth about the “Lib Dem Boss” taking over Danny Alexander’s campaign (23 comments) by Caron Lindsay

Manifesto Launch on Wednesday (27 comments) by Paul Walter

 

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8 Comments

  • Eddie Sammon 19th Apr '15 - 3:09pm

    I know after reading the manifesto I jumped off the fence and said I wanted another Con-Lib coalition, but if I were a public sector worker then I might want a Lab-Lib coalition.

    Maybe grand coalition is the best idea.

  • Philip Thomas 19th Apr '15 - 3:15pm

    Grand coalition would, I fear, combine the worst elements of both major parties and leave us out in the cold with our policies gathering dust. But it is always a possibility.

  • Eddie Sammon 19th Apr '15 - 3:19pm

    Philip, why couldn’t it be a Con-Lib-Lab coalition? It would increase the talent pool for ministers and policies.

    OK I am dreaming, but we should at least start talking about these. Germany does it and we can still have campaigning against each other, just like this coalition.

  • Philip Thomas 19th Apr '15 - 3:21pm

    Because Con and Lab could drop Lib with ease (historically German grand coalitions excluded the FDP, for example).

  • Tsar Nicholas 19th Apr '15 - 3:39pm

    A Grand Coalition would speed the exit of Scotland from the UK.

    Sturgeon would paint it as an anti-Scottish plot.

  • Philip Thomas 19th Apr '15 - 4:04pm

    Yes, well that is a danger of any arrangement which excludes the SNP I suppose. The more non-SNP Scots MPs we can elect the less potent that argument becomes.

  • David Allen 19th Apr '15 - 4:47pm

    If Cameron is scared of what the SNP might force a Labour government to do, he has a very simple remedy. He can pledge that the Tories will refuse to support the SNP in Parliament if they demand a second referendum, or any deal which gives too much away to Scotland at the expense of everyone else. The Tories in opposition would merely need to abstain, thereby neutering the SNP threat, and handing responsibility for Scottish affairs back to the Labour Prime Minister.

    Cameron’s scaremongering about the SNP makes no sense, unless the Tories themselves intend to act irresponsibly. If that prospect scares the voters, then it is the Tories they should be scared of voting for!

  • David Allen 19th Apr ’15 – 4:47pm
    “…..Cameron’s scaremongering about the SNP makes no sense, unless the Tories themselves intend to act irresponsibly. If that prospect scares the voters, then it is the Tories they should be scared of voting for! ”

    David, your comment is entirely rational and therefore does not form any part of the discussion in the TV Studio Bubble that is being presented as a General Election debate.
    A rational and informed discussion of the role of the SNP in Wesminster seems impossible, especially on the BBC which shamelessly reported on the referendum last September as being all about “preventing the appalling disaster of a dangerous break-up of our Great Queen’s home country” or words along those lines.

    Perhaps within The Liberal Democrats there are wiser people currently thinking thorough the implications of more than 50 MPs in the next Parliament from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Brighton who have a shared opposition to Austerity, Trident and the Ancien Regime of Old Etonians.

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