No recovery if we hadn't decided to enter
into coalition in order to provide the country with strong government.
If no party receives a majority, they will be forced to
enter into a coalition or seek support for their policy programme from the opposition benches.
Former home secretary Alan Johnson has revealed that he was prepared to lead the Labour
party into coalition with the Liberal Democrats in 2010 — even though it was «a shit job».
The logic of his position is that one day he would take the Lib
Dems into coalition with Labour.
It's certainly true that Nick Clegg and his party chose rather than were
forced into coalition with the Conservatives.
But help was at hand from the Liberal Democrats, who agreed to enter
into a coalition on condition that a referendum take place on electoral reform.
Finally we come to the Liberal Democrats, and the impact their
entry into coalition with the Conservatives has had upon how they are perceived.
Speculation about which of the two main parties could attract Nick
Clegg into a coalition has dominated the last week of the general election campaign, since his TV debate performance sent Lib Dem support through the roof.
Labour went into the election defending 30 of the Assembly's 60 seats, with predictions they would need to go
into coalition after the election to continue governing.
One way or another, should Haseler's plan succeed, he will at the very least split the Liberal Democrat vote — and with it drive an early
wedge into the Coalition.
The novelist Lord (Michael) Dobbs was one of many Tories to
lay into their coalition partner, accusing Clegg of «a great political sulk», after the Liberal Democrats withdrew support in retribution for the failure to complete a deal to reform the House of Lords last year.
As a result it was
written into the coalition agreement of May 2010, the nearest thing to a 10 commandments in these days of relativist politics.
Clegg also hit out at briefings from the Conservatives that they may commit to not going
into coalition again with the Lib Dems.
Appointing the likes of Field and John Hutton binds some of the Left's most thoughtful
people into the Coalition's most difficult decisions.
Welsh Tory leader Nick Bourne (who blogs here) has long hoped to put his Tory group into a grand coalition but that hope only became feasible when Mike German AM pulled out of talks to put his LibDem
group into coalition with Rhodri Morgan's Welsh Labour party.
Of note, on Nov 23, 2017, there were approximately nine instances where Russian fighter aircraft crossed to the east side of the Euphrates
River into Coalition airspace without first using the deconfliction phone.
Five Star is much better placed to capture the centrist votes than anyone else in Italian politics right now, and much more likely to be able to co-opt the Renzi - hating
left into a coalition.
When it seems like the most popular blogs are the ones that turn grace into a doctrine and the
gospel into a coalition,
But perhaps the greatest «betrayal» was Cameron's failure to win the 2010 general election outright and his subsequent
move into coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
In a hung Parliament, who would you go
into coalition with?A coalition between the Greens and the Labour Party might be a good idea.
Earlier this month home secretary Theresa May attempted to dismiss fears that the SFO might be
folded into the coalition's broader National Crime Agency (NCA), however.
Ivanishvili drew a number of opposition parties
into coalition so they would not split votes.
And the Lib Dems would be out of their minds to go
into coalition before the election — «vote Lib Dem, get Labour» did for them in 1992, and it wasn't even true then.
Then there are the Considerers, who did not vote Tory last time and would not do so tomorrow, but say they might do one day — yet must be
brought into the coalition for a Conservative majority to be achievable.
That's assuming that Lib Dems think the best way of getting electoral reform is
getting into a coalition in the next parliament.
When Neville Chamberlain resigned in the spring of 1940, incoming Prime Minister Winston Churchill decided to bring the other main parties
into a coalition similar to that of the First World War.
Millions of the poorest workers lifted out of paying income tax Children no longer locked up in immigration detention centres Thousands of schools better able to support children from the poorest backgrounds Millions of pupils with a free school meal to help them through the day And same sex couples, finally getting the freedom to marry the person they love And still more important than any of these victories for ordinary people was our willingness to enter
into coalition at all.
If the Lib Dems went
straight into coalition with Labour, it would be a naked power - grab with no justification, hence the need to give the Tories the first shot.
The Lib Dems» opposition to nuclear power is one of three areas where an abstention has been
built into the coalition agreement.
It is why he went
into the coalition negotiations ready to drop his party's tuition fees pledge - and much else besides - but with electoral reform as non-negotiable.
The book, which makes extensive use of a near - verbatim record of the talks kept by long - serving Lib Dem aide Alison Suttie, marks Mr Laws's return to the political limelight following his shock resignation from the Cabinet just
weeks into the Coalition.