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Hand in hand, in a liberal wonderland – that's Clegg and Cameron
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie May 13, 2010 04:12pm |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | May 12, 2010 04:00pm |
| Description | Sceptics say the coalition can't last. But the PM and his deputy have created a government of breathtaking ambition.
Count on this: they mean it, they want it and they certainly intend to do it. David Cameron and Nick Clegg entered the Downing Street garden this afternoon to announce they were creating a government of breathtaking ambition.
It might have been born of an electoral accident – a hung parliament in which no single party could rule alone securely – but this union represents a fundamental coming together of ideas and values. It is not a marriage of convenience. Of course this afternoon's flirtatious press conference set a tone that cannot continue for long: two men separated only by the colour of the ties, walking hand in hand in a liberal wonderland. There will be rows and failures, but this is much more than a modern-day recreation of the infamous Fox-North coalition – a brief gathering of political enemies, which soon fell apart over the issue of electoral reform.
The unifying idea is liberal, but liberalism, like progress, is one of those things that almost everyone believes they stand for. In this incarnation, it implies a strong respect of the primacy of the individual over the state – a distrust of arbitrary authority and interference that is part of the Conservative philosophical inheritance. |
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