I think these hold good even if the people vote No in the referendum on voting reform next May,
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My argument is: that the spending cuts might look very different in four years’ time; that David Cameron has an incentive to give the Lib Dems something to show for their partnership; and that hung parliaments are likely to continue to be the norm.*
It is an entirely winnable campaign but only if we are really clear that people defending first-past-the-post are Neanderthal. Now, they may be our colleagues in government, but it’s an indefensible, unfair, illogical minority activity to defend the first-past-the-post.
We have got to go in really hard. It’s no good pansying round the edge and saying, ‘Oh well,
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I have in the past suggested that Nick Clegg was an opportunist, and not a very good one.
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Could he in fact be a principled,
http://www.sgcin.gov.cn/E_ReadNews.asp?NewsId=2755, tactically astute leader who is going to secure long-term advance for the Liberal Democrat cause?
*Update: Another apology; I meant to put in the link to Prof John Curtice’s article in Parliamentary Affairs,
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This is not number 388 in my long-running series of Questions to Which the Answer is No,
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