Wonder how a Con/Lib coalition will work. Or not. Hope that NI's public spending doesn't suffer too badly. Most interesting things in NI were Belfast East (goodbye, Robinson) and Fermanagh South Tyrone (Four votes. Four!)
Honestly, I'm pretty shocked they're even talking about it. I thought the Lib Dems were supposed to be more to the left than the Labour Party... or is my knowledge of British politics that bad??
The LibDem leader said during the campaign that it would be for the party with majority votes/seats to have the first bite of the cherry. So he is keeping his word. And there are things where the LibDems and the Conservatives agree against Labour. LibDems are not economically as leftwing as Labour and they are very strong on protecting the civil liberties that Labour seem determined to erode. It's always more complicated.
The Lib Dems have moved to the right lately, and it's more on the liberal/authoritarian axis than the left/right axis that they're any different from the other two.
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