We have a new PM in the UK, David Cameron. It looks like a Con/Lib coalition government will shortly be announced. As a Lib Dem voter, pre-election, I'd have found this prospect horrifying but somehow, at this point, it seems right.
A Lib/Lab coalition would have been a doomed exercise I feel. Although I would argue that such a coalition would have had some claim of "legitimacy"(representing 52% of the vote) in reality it would have been ungainly and likely to collapse. Had this happened the damage to the "centre-left" support would have been catastrophic, rejigging politics in the UK to the "right" for a generation.
If this coalition works the Lib Dems should hopefully hold this new government towards the centre ground. Manage this feat and the Lib Dems, in proving the benefits of pluralist coalition government, may just do the cause of PR reform some good despite not securing a commitment to electoral reform.
Then of course it may all turn to custard. That'll be the end of the Lib Dems.
I really hope it doesn't turn to custard :-)
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