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Am i the only one to be happy with the result?

41 replies

newlife4us · 13/05/2010 14:25

I'm just bracing myself for the replies!!

I know their policies were quite wide apart but i kind of liked the lib dem policies on education etc but tory policies on economy.

Thought DC and NC looked like newly formed school chums during last night's speech though. Was waiting for them to turn round, hold hands and skip back through the garden to No 10.

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ajandjjmum · 13/05/2010 17:48

I was disappointed that the Tories didn't win an outright majority, but on reflection, I think this could work really well. It's in everyone's interests to make it work (as we're in the shit without the added problem of a disfunctional government!), and maybe it will give us the chance to see whether PR/AV might have a place in the UK.

bobthebuddha · 13/05/2010 18:11

I'm not unhappy, but there seem to be so many people miserableat the result & doom-mongers ready to hate the Tories for the cuts that had to come under any government (why the denial??) that it's very cautious optimism. Every party had dealbreaking policies for me so I'm afraid I didn't feel able to vote for any of them. Now if it works out I'm hoping I get to see most of the policies I felt more favourable towards without those I didn't. Let's wait and see!

bobthebuddha · 13/05/2010 18:20

By the way, over on the Times Matthew Parris, is sounding cautious optimism (please, nobody shout Murdoch rag at me!). And most of the comments are upbeat, if upbeat's what you need . I'm going to cut and paste one because it was quite interesting;

"One commentator put it this way - the coalition is the merger of the socially liberal with the economically liberal.

This is the option we have never really had before. If you wanted social equality, fairness, equal opportunity, classlessness, you had to go to the Labour Party and accept the socialist economics and big government that came with it. If you wanted laissez faire, lower taxes, small government, you had to go to the Tories and accept the Daily Mail's social vision for the country, in which everything is great if you are 55, white, married (to a woman), and live in a small country village.

By chance what we now have is perfect. Less bureaucracy AND gay rights. Lower taxes (eventually) AND class-free opportunity. Business encouragement AND rights for working women. How good is that?"

That said, there are already petitions up and running complaining that Theresa May's voting record is directly at odds with her position as 'Equalities' Minister. Obviously this coincides with complaints about about there not being enough women in Cabinet positions. It's never been more true that you can't please everyone...

JimJammum · 13/05/2010 18:27

I am quite happy and excited that maybe "2 heads better than 1" might work here to dig us out of the mess we're in. Thought Clegg came across well in the debates and it is probably good for Tories that he is DPM rather than the unpopular Osbourne. Also, Vince Cable in charge of banks and businesses which I gather is good news too.
I am quite naive politically, so I have no preconceptions about why LD and Tories cannot work together. It happens all the time in business - people with different ideas and beliefs get together and try to find the best way of running a business. I fervently hope that they can make it work.

Alouiseg · 13/05/2010 18:30

I am very happy, it's the least worst result and i am optimistic that the financial mess we are are in will be sorted out swiftly.

I am also rather agitated by the amount of anti tory feeling on mn right now. Can anyone relate to that?

salizchap · 13/05/2010 18:33

I am happy with this result, considering the alternatives. I am glad both parties have tried to put aside some of their differences to work for the common good. I am also pleased than the conservatives haven't been given free reign. I had worried about some of theri policies and ideals, especially their ideas about lone parent families.

anastaisia · 13/05/2010 19:48

I am cautiously optimistic.

I have no doubt that they, like any other government, need carefully watching and the public to get active when needed to ensure they don't pass awful legislation. But I think that of the possible outcomes, this is perhaps the one I like best (or dislike least ).

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 13/05/2010 20:06

Alouiseg - indeed I can!

The blinkered, bunker kind of attitude is bizarre. One can only hope that it's a mirror of what is currently happening within the Labour party itself and that the whole edifice will come crumbling down!

posieparker · 13/05/2010 20:15

I was anti tory before the election but I like Nick Clegg and think the coalition is a very positive start.

badkitty · 13/05/2010 20:36

Seems to me that some of the anti-tories on here have some image of the tories derived from the 80's which doesn't bear scrutiny these days, and I don't think there is anything the tories can do to change some people's views. But getting rid of labour's big brother state with the Lib-Con coalition is going to be the best thing which could have possibly happened for the country.

scaryteacher · 13/05/2010 20:47

Another happy Tory here - I think it will work, and I am sooo glad that they are finally able to have real discussions about Afghanistan and keep that in focus by having a 'war cabinet'. About bloody time.

WidowWadman · 13/05/2010 21:01

It's the result I hoped for.

Waswondering · 13/05/2010 21:05

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vesela · 13/05/2010 21:59

I'm happy. A coalition (as opposed to a weaker support arrangement) seemed a surreal idea at first - it still does! - but I'm glad they were able to say - why not? and go for it, because we can use the stability. It was a brave step, and I'm glad the LD MPs (and all the federal exec except 1) voted for it. I think there's a lot of will on both sides to make it work.

I'm glad that David Laws is in charge of cuts, too. You couldn't want a better person for a terrible job.

I just hope that Labour can be kept out for more than five years.

TiggyR · 14/05/2010 10:57

I'm very happy. Would have preferred an outright Tory victory without all the stress in between, and that 24 hours of sickening fear/frustration when Clegg went to talk to Labour but overall I'm feeling strangely chipper and optimistic about this coalition. Nick Robinson put it very well on Radio 4 yesterday (or day before when he said it was a marriage between 'socially liberal Conservatives and fiscally conservative Liberals.' (or something along those lines!)

Hopefully both factions will temper one another, and we'll have a true centre-centre stance (though I'm secretly hoping for a subtle, inperceptable lean to the right.) that will be both fair and compassionate, but have its head screwed firmly on where the national debt is concerned.

ajandjjmum · 14/05/2010 15:09

Infact Tiggy - Dave and Nick may just have formed the perfect party!!! Fingers crossed.

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