Thursday 13 May 2010

Coalition government: Like a flat-pack with screws missing, this deal will wobble

Polly Toynbee writes for the Guardian: "Weddings stir deep emotions. Some weep with simple joy as the happy couple plight their troth. Some cry with disappointment. But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly 'happy ever after' ceremonies that ended in acrimony. Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket. I was responsible for the appalling daily press conferences during that election, when all the press sought was a wafer of difference between the two: they often found a crevasse, even between those similar parties." "

Read the full Guardian article here.