Relations between
the coalition parties hit a new low today, as rows over free schools and green levies saw the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives at loggerheads.
Not exact matches
«The hope I have always had is that the two
parties could come together in a
coalition and learn from each other» And I. Unfortunately, it was Labour in office that sold that idea down the river, and the marginalising those that favoured it (such as the under promoted Ben Bradshaw who should've
hit Cabinet before either Miliband or Balls did).
Tory hopes of a
coalition to get them over the finish line will also be
hit by a decline in the Lib Dem results, with the
party projected to be down five seats to just 14.
But while Labour has exposed the
coalition and scored some early
hits, this is also a dangerous time for our
party.
Whichever way one examines this part of the
coalition agreement, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that these proposals have a highly partisan purpose behind them — gratuitously to
hit just one
party, the Labour P
party, the Labour
PartyParty.
• So the Tories wanted to
hit the poorest people in order to attract votes, and refused to build houses for people lest they then voted Labour; and Nick Clegg doesn't understand why his
party didn't get credit for being in the
coalition.