Are Labour Insane?

Of late I have been a bit of a post-election news glutton. Hung parliaments certainly make for interesting politics. Anyway, Labour last night announced that they would be willing to do a deal with the Lib Dems so as to form a ‘Progressive Alliance’, and Gordon Brown would stand down as leader if this were to happen. Despite the fact that adding the Liberals to the Labour bunch still does not make a majority, this would be utter madness. Although the Labour loyalists doing the TV circuits claiming that there is no constitutional barrier to imposing another unelected PM are correct, this does not mean they are justified in doing so. A Party leader will shape the policy and persona of their party, and as PM is the face of Britain abroad-for instance Thatcher Tory Party and Cameron Tory Party are different in many respects as too would a Milliband or Balls Labour Party. As such I think the electorate should at least have the right to know who they are getting as their leader when they vote for a party at an election. If Labour impose yet another leader on the British people without recourse to an election then I think they deserve to be punished at the polls.

In the personal opinion of this blogger I think that the Lib Dems should side with the Conservative Party. Although I may not like it more people voted Tory than any other single party, and a Con-Lib coalition may take the sting out of some of the worse Conservative policies-perhaps they will be more gentle with a southing yellow at the Cabinet. However, if they form a Lib-Lab pact then we are in for a messy term where nothing much gets done. This is bad in the best of times, never mind when just coming out of a recession. Come on Clegg, side with Cameron!