Ed Miliband's role in last night's defeat of the boundary review was only to be expected. After all, who is taken in by his talk of "fairness" and "one nation" apart from a few simpletons? So what if the current constituency boundaries mean that one party has to poll at least seven per cent more of the popular vote to win an overall majority than the other? The Labour Party will always put self-interest above principle.
But Nick Clegg's decision to vote against it was genuinely shocking. Not because the Lib Dems aren't as venal as their Labour counterparts. If anything, their history of dirty political campaigning is even worse than Labour's. But because the Lib Dems made a cast iron promise to the Tories in the Coalition Agreement to support "the creation of fewer and more equal sized constituencies". It was a straightforward quid pro quo – you give us a referendum on AV and we'll vote for the boundaries to be re-drawn. The Conservatives kept to their side of the deal and the Lib Dems have reneged on theirs. (To read more, click here.)
Re: The Conservatives are in bed with a party that
Posted by Peter Wearden on 30-01-2013 11:46:
A petulant child and unfit and too immature to govern or lead even a minor political party
Re: The Conservatives are in bed with a party that
Posted by Alan Hardwick on 30-01-2013 16:12:
Strange how tory pricks such as yourself are now going on about equal representation. Answer is quite simlple PR or AV.
I am over the moon at what happened. Makes a Labour win almost inevitable.
Re: The Conservatives are in bed with a party that
Posted by NICHOLAS KISSEN on 31-01-2013 11:54:
As a committed Tory you should accept that life is unfair and that now and again you will be on the receiving end of a classic shafting.Well done Libdems.
Re: The Conservatives are in bed with a party that
Posted by Paul Stapleton on 04-02-2013 18:24:
Good. The sooner this disgusting, craven party are out of power the better.
Great review of The Fix by @holysmoke in the Washington Post link(46 minutes ago)
