Sometimes the head must rule the heart (Fylde Liberal Democrats)

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Sometimes the head must rule the heart

June 28, 2010 12:03 PM

Lots of Liberal Democrats are uneasy about being in coalition with the Conservatives but they are, one suspects, nothing like as unhappy as the large number of right wing hawks in the Tory Party whose wings have been clipped. If you want to see what happens when the Tories have sole control please look at Tony Ford's & Howard Henshaw's blogs by clicking the appropriate link at the side of this page. Whatever the coalition does that goes against the LibDem grain it is time to let the head rule the heart. The electorate did not vote for a Labour, nor Conservative, nor indeed (sadly) for a LibDem government to rule as the kind of elected dictatorship that has been our history for most of the last 65 yrs. To work with Labour the numbers simply did not add up. It was the Conservatives or nothing. In the circumstances a minority government or another General Election would have been a disaster for Britain. The Coalition agreement sets out the most detailed blueprint for Government that there has ever been. But we should note and remember that this is a Coalition, NOT an electoral pact, and as Howard & Tony are demonstrating we will fight the Conservatives & anyone else with the utmost vigour when the issues demand it.