You know, I really don’t get political: I really don’t.
Which is possibly the BIGGEST amount I’ve ever written on here … !
I’m human.
And, as a famed philosopher once said, man is a political animal.
Well, he would’ve said ‘humanity is’, but you know what I mean.
At ANY rate … !
I don’t often get political.
But I’m also aware I’ve posted up the occasional piece that’s politically inclined.
Especially at the time of the last general election: when, to my personal disgust, the Liberal-Democrats — the party I’ve voted for all of my adult life — formed a coalition with the seriously right-wing Conservative Party.
As the junior party, I should add.
I wasn’t happy: and was left with the impression that not many other Lib Dem voters were, either.
So recent news — that the coalition partnership wasn’t a happy ship, in regards to House of Lords reform — had been something I was following.
Basically, the Liberal Democrats were hoping to make the Upper house of Parliament into a largely elected — rather than appointive — one.
Something that the Conservatives have blocked.
Now, I’m STILL none too convinced is Lords reform is something that should be done.
But on the other hand, the Lib Dems raise a good point in saying that it should be.
As a result, Nick Clegg has announced, tonight, that he and his party will seek to delay Conservative plans to redraw the constituency map of the UK — a key Tory policy — until AFTER the next general election, in 2015.
Personally … ?
I’m thinking the Liberal Democrats should learn their lesson: that ANY kind of coalition with the tories is a futile one: and that the time has come to pull out of it.
Here’s hoping.
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