A New Lib Lab Pact is a fair election outcome.

Brown and Clegg should form a natural majority coalition of the centre left.

Who are these voices that say that the Conservatives have a moral right to govern? 

They do not. Nothing of the sort.

If this was Germany we would have had a government sometime early this morning. The centre-left combination of Liberal Democrat and Labour would make an obvious voting block at over 50% of the electorate; deals would be done, a new leader announced, markets becalmed by the thought of 5 years of stable, centrist political and economic policy. As it is we debate notions of the moral authority of the largest centre-right party to govern alone as a minority, otherwise known as the Conservatives. Why ?

Why? It is simple; we are conditioned by an archaic electoral system built out of a need to have democracy that allowed the traditional elites still to govern. There is a majority in this country that favours centre-left politics of one variety or another. You don’t believe me? Then just add the Labour and Liberal share of the vote together for as many elections as you want to count back to in the twentieth century, including this one in 2010. Should we condemn a Lib Lab pact if it materialises? Of course not ,it is the natural inclination of the British voting public, imprisoned by a Victorian voting system.

Clegg should and Brown should feel no inhibitions about running a shared future government.



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