Someone wrote in [personal profile] miss_s_b,
There are a few big Yeses there - the AV referendum, elected HoL, the Great Repeal Bill, DNA, protecting trial by jury, libel reform, reducing CCTV, fixed term parliaments, end to child immigration detention, pupil premium, raising the tax threshold, dropping IHT threshold rise, raising CGT - bloody hell, that is a lot of stuff. And so much more than Labour would've conceded. A LOT of stuff. I can't believe it! Very pleased about the child immigrant detention thing - whoever thought the Tories would have the moral high ground to Labour.

The banking stuff is good too. The main drawbacks are the immigration cap (Labour would've done that anyway), schools and welfare reform.

But my god. If the Lib Dems held the Tories to that stuff, and none of it is stuff that Tories would viscerally disagree with, then this could be the best government we've had since the 60s. And Chris Huhne will easily be the best Home Secretary since the late 1940s - especially compared to the twazzocks Labour have rolled out these last 13 years.

I have massive respect for the Lib Dem negotiation team. The unquoted Tory grandee is right - they've allowed the Lib Dems to erase parts of the Tory manifesto and just put their own bits in there!



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