A question about British politics
Jul. 3rd, 2011 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaNow that the Alternative Vote referendum has been held (and failed to reform voting), why are the Liberal Democrats still in coalition with the Conservatives? Couldn't they force a confidence vote, which would fail, and dictate terms to the Labour Party for a new coalition? The Libs can't possibly relish being part of the government which destroys the UK for a generation, can they?
(I assume that enough of the small parties would join Labour and the Lib Dems to form a majority--but maybe I'm completely misreading things and the Conservatives would have an easier time scraping together 20 votes from the small parties than the center-left would have scraping together 11.)
(I assume that enough of the small parties would join Labour and the Lib Dems to form a majority--but maybe I'm completely misreading things and the Conservatives would have an easier time scraping together 20 votes from the small parties than the center-left would have scraping together 11.)
