The Vultures Are Circling Over The Coalition

With this afternoon’s statement from the Daily Telegraph revealing further comments made by Vince Cable in their ‘sting’ operation using undercover reporters posing as Lib Dem activists, it is becoming much clearer what is going on. This is an attempt by the Tory right wing, aided and abetted by Tory sympathisers among the press, to seriously de-stabilise the coalition government and force a general election early next year. They hope to catch Labour still in their state of policy confusion and the Lib Dems still being seen entirely responsible for the raising of tuition fees thus giving the Tories a realistic chance of winning this early election. As a party political strategy it is sound, as a broader method of doing politics, it is disastrous. It represents a return to bi-partisan confrontation and puts British politics back thirty years. Worse of all it undermines all notions of trust and decency in British politics. Strange that John Denham hasn’t realised what is going on, I thought he was cleverer than that.