tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post1897990062278587363..comments2023-10-01T16:53:17.274+01:00Comments on Cicero's Songs: Liberal Democrats need to hold their nerveCicerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02090838836212624633noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-83216434333888145742010-12-06T20:33:27.873+00:002010-12-06T20:33:27.873+00:00As a pro-Coalition Conservative, I entirely agree ...As a pro-Coalition Conservative, I entirely agree with you on us needing to back (some form of) constitutional reform, at least in the Lords.<br /><br /> As a student who has to face the thugs you describe on a regular basis, I'm also entirely in accord with yourself. I gave my thoughts on the morality of student riots here: <br />http://dilettante11.blogspot.com/2010/11/student-riots-ochlocratic-challenge.html <br /><br /> Keep up the good work.Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03532639584338090676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-23868059569980062442010-12-06T10:01:38.107+00:002010-12-06T10:01:38.107+00:00It is true that no single party won a majority, bu...It is true that no single party won a majority, but it is not true that this was a deliberate choice by electorate. We only get to vote for one MP, and have no control over what happens in the other constituencies. I should imagine that most people would have preferred that their chosen MP would have ended up in the majority party, but we end up with a coalition because of the result in six hundred separate decisions.<br />All of the successful Lib Dem candidates in those six hundred contests made a personal pledge to their electorate which - despite Clegg's post facto prevarications - was not conditional on the government formed as a result of those individual elections.<br />I hope they hold their nerve and vote according to their personal promise to their electorate.Keith Daynoreply@blogger.com