David Cameron's LibDem deputy echoes Prodicus in recalling the 1832 Reform Act in response to David Cameron's 'Great Reform' speech of 26th May 2009.
I hope the media will remember that it was David Cameron's Conservative Party which promised these reforms if it came to government, and which Party and which Party leader is the junior partner in this reforming coalition government.
There is a small, monitory voice at the back my the mind as I consider the blessings of coalition with the Liberal Democrats. The activists behind Clegg have a well-deserved reputation for skulduggery. Their party leaders do nothing whatsoever to rein them in from even their worst excesses. Almost daily during the election, as during every one of the many elections I remember, there was irrefutable evidence up and down the country that LibDems include some of the most mendacious and vicious of all the parties' campaigners, for whom no dirty trick is too low, no smear of an opponent unspreadable, none of their opponents' political clothes safe from theft by opportunist LibDems.
No-one in the MSM ever mentions this. It's infra dig to bring it up now in the 2010 summer of political love.
Mr Clegg has comported himself pretty well since choosing between his two suitors, one of whom he found had nothing to offer and in fact looked like a potential wife-beater. Let's hope that his party follows him in the ways of peace, and that the quiet murmuring behind him is the sound of axes being buried, not sharpened.
I am sure you are right in what you say, Prodicus, but there is a more practical way of looking at things; if someone wants to free me from my shackles, I am not primarily concerned with who sold him the hacksaw.
ReplyDeleteSimplistic, perhaps, but surely the final test is whether or not things work.
Looks like Cameron has started with a reform of his own party - he's only gone and raped the '22.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't exactly bode well, does it? More centralization of power, just what the doctor ordered!