Backing for CMD's anti coalition argument?

Backing for CMD's anti coalition argument?

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tamore

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7,018 posts

285 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8637459.st...

for those who think it could be a good thing, why has it never worked in the UK?

VX Foxy

3,962 posts

244 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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Does that mean Crash Gordon might quit in?!

Funkateer

990 posts

176 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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The first past the post system isn't a glowing success either. Trouble is though, that our parties will struggle to work together - easily rectified by a mandate to have MPs shot if they don't grow up a bit and start working for the good of the country, instead of their own grotty party agendas.

HiRich

3,337 posts

263 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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Anyone around in the early 1940s might disagree, worked pretty well back then.

But
Funkateer said:
Trouble is though, that our parties will struggle to work together
is the big concern

tamore

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Thursday 22nd April 2010
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HiRich said:
Anyone around in the early 1940s might disagree, worked pretty well back then.
a completely irrelevant argument given the circumstances back then.

HiRich

3,337 posts

263 months

Thursday 22nd April 2010
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Why?
You asked why it has never worked in the UK. It has. It does. Irish parties aligned with Labour and Conservatives. Numerous NOM councils around the country - some working more effectively than majority councils. The most notorious councils in the country at the moment are all single-party.

The issue is not can it work, but would it work with the parties and personalities involved now. At the monet it looks like the political future for the next few decades may depend on who pallys up with who, and how well they make it work. If it happens it looks likely that there will be one very big loser.

tamore

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Thursday 22nd April 2010
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HiRich said:
If it happens it looks likely that there will be one very big loser.
yes. the public.