It’s not just clan solidarity, but I find myself agreeing with Peter MacLean, rather than with “Straight 8” on the resultsof a hung Parliament at this election. I think we are seeing the “Strange Death of Labour Britain” which may take a year or two to happen fully.
It’s not so “Strange” when you consider that it wasn’t just a few greedy Tory MPs who misused their expenses allowances–quite a few Labour MPs, INCLUDING SOME FAIRLY SENIOR MINISTERS, helped themselves in ways which ordinary (or honest!) voters found unacceptable, and this is part of the punishment being meted out to the Labour Party, irrespective of whether one likes Gordon Brown or not.
We may therefore get a Coalition Government lasting anything from six months to two years, followed by another election in which the remnants of Labour will virtually disappear, and the battleground will be between Lib-Dem and Tory.
Whatever happens, it’s going to be interesting!
