From the Coffee House blog:
The SNP and Plaid Cymru are tabling a motion calling for the dissolution of Parliament, and it will get debated in the House next Wednesday afternoon. The Lib Dems have come out in support of it, and William Hague has said that the Tories will too.
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9 Comments
This is madness. If there’s a General Election now you can say goodbye to any meaningful reforms for at least the next five years.
On the other hand; if we vote against this motion then we will be seen as propping up a government which is universally devised and conniving with it to keep it in power against the clearly stated opinion of the overwhelming majority of the public. I suspect the latter consideration weighed heavy and Clegg feels the motion has little chances of success.
*despised even, damn typoitus….
In shock news the Lib Dems come second in the polls and now want an election. Durr!
Durr? No!
It makes more sense to push for the reforms. There should definitely be a number of bye-bye-flippers-elections though.
Neale,
I refer you to the comments I made some moments ago. Of course we should push for reform but realistically siding with the government on this specific vote would be the madness…not voting for it…
“It makes more sense to push for the reforms.”
That will be the reforms which Labour have had 10 years to introduce and are about to start thinking about when they are in serious trub.
We should be demanding an autumn election. That would give enough time to separate the real out-and-out fraudsters properly from the not-all-that-guilty, and then let the voters pass judgment. It should also give enough time to organise a parallel referendum on the voting system.
Mark is right- its strategic madness on PR and cowardly on the economy at a critical moment in the recession….pathetic really