A man of limited means, I presume.

Now I presume thanks to Margaret Thatcher and Breakfast News and 24 Hour News, we have a succession of “business reporters” interviewing a succession of “city wide boys” who talk of the market needing stability.

I do not fear a Hung Parliament. The more that get hung the better.
But I do fear Coalition Government…a Grand Coalition that will be able to “do” what a single party cannot do.
We go into the Election knowing that there will be “cuts”.
We go into it with Labour saying “our cuts will not be as bad as the Tories”
The Tories say “yes but we are more realistic”

And both will claim they will not affect their core vote. Thus in crass terms the working class and banker/wide boys will be protected by Labour and Tory respectively.

A Grand Coalition seductively wrapped up as “National Recovery” will be able to make the perceived cuts without supporting their own narrow interests.
Some might call that REALITY.
Some might say it will be a difficult period made worse.

A Coalition Government with only Lib Dems in opposition is a bad thing.
Er except of course at Stormont….where it is agood thing.

How bad are things in the UK economy??

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Has we coalition government in the UK, “In Place of Strife” would have become law (The GFA equivalent for Trade Unions and employers) thus thwarting excesses of Trade Unionism and Thatcherism.

Alternative history is 90% a parlour game but the above was a real possibility but scuppered by the egotisitical Callaghan (Uncle Jim my backside, self serving as most of them) because he couldn’t face a solution being put forward by a woman let alone Barbara Castle.

I refer you to the points I made in #1

Its the Banks stupid.

Whilst we cannot expect any political party to explicitly say that there will be a hung parliament
(because of the message that this would send to the markets), the Tories have made it clear through their secret talks about Unionist unity, that they see it as a very real possibility.

Tory dithering over cuts, is already spooking the markets, and in recent days sterling has taken something of a pasting against the dollar.

All told, the truth is that winning the election outright might represent something of a poisoned chalice; with the prospect of a hung parliament even worse.

Lose/Lose – with the markets deciding whether the UK will be having a full blown crisis.

It’s not as if it would be hung between the SWP or the BNP or some other state-shifting party.

I know how entertaining the debating chamber at Westminster is and PMQs are worth a watch but the very physical shape of the chamber both encourages and invents opposition for it’s own sake and that is never good for the country.

A collaborative horseshoe chamber maybe dull but it makes for better more reasoned government and coalitions put a check on the quixotic excesses of PMs.

Yes the ya boo sucks may go as a consequence but do we really want Parliament to be Jerry Springer for failed barristers? And do we really need Parliament to be entertaining? Why should it be? It’s there to govern first and last.

The above may seem like a digression from the thread but it’s not. If Market jitters do happen for the reasons stated at the top, then it’s because the Market sees the world through a very black and white testosterone tinted prism. It has to learn to behave and interpret world and domestic events to a greater degree of subtle analysis.

Such a binary view of the world is given physical shape to the very voting system, the 2party system, winner takes all and the shape of Westminster itself