Current mood:	hopeful
Entry tags:	omg! we're in coalition!, politics

Cameron has announced full coalition. While we wait for the details of the agreement, I shall just list a few things that will and won't happen.

Things that will happen:

• The media will continue to speculate furiously, and will probably not read the agreement properly and will need to have their mistakes pointed out by bloggers.


• Tories shackled in government by a coalition with the Lib Dems will be orders of magnitude better than Tories in government unfettered and running amok.


• Nick Robinson will continue frotting Dave until Dave can stand it no more.


• We will lose members, supporters and voters who don't understand how we can coalesce with the Tories and put tribalism over making things work.


• The Murdochised press are not going to be fair to us - but we're used to that.

Things that will not happen:

• Lib Dems will not suddenly start being lovely to Tories; we will be keeping a close eye on what they do because it now affects us too.


• I am not not going to start paying attention to any Tory blogs that I am not already reading. Unreasonable people do not suddenly become reasonable just because our parties are in coalition.


• The world will not end just because that smug twat is occupying #10 Downing Street.

This is not ideal. Not by any means. But it's better than it could have been. Lets wait for the details to emerge, and then we can do what we Lib Dems do best: disect them and point out the flaws :D