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We have a government at last - it’s just…

So after pretty much five days of uncertainty we now have a government and a new prime minister, they are however Tory. With the Lib Dems support in coalition the two parties will set about running the country with the Labour party in opposition. Nearly all the tabloids seem to be rather smug about the whole thing.

The saving grace is that we as the voting public didn’t vote the Tories in as a majority government and that they had to join into coalition with the Lib Dems. And whilst I don’t agree with everything that the two parties offer, each tempering the others views can only be a good thing - though having said that it remains to be seen how much the Lib Dems can stop.

I doubt they will be able to stop the huge spending cuts that the Tories seem certain to implement, I can’t see how they are going to push through the savings that they want without cutting frontline services - or at least making front line services work harder on background things to effectively cut them. I can only hope that amongst other things it isn’t good bye to the childrens centres that Libby so loves going to and that the Maternity services in this area don’t suffer as it should serve as a model for other areas that don’t get the same level of care. That schools will have better support from the parents to continue offering the level of education that they do now. Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying that Labour had everything right but they did a lot of good in their 13 years in power - let’s hope the Tories don’t dismantle it.

The coalition is new ground for the UK and maybe it will work out but with such major differences in the idealogy between the two parties is seems odd that they were even talking in the first place. However agreement has been reached and we have this government until the coalition breaks down - when will that happen? I wonder whether it will be the first time that the wishes of the Lib Dems are really put to the test.

We shall see…

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