There have been plenty of disturbances in the coalition force this weekend. Clegg and Laws’ calls for faster tax cuts for the less well off were slapped down by the Chancellor yesterday, but that is far from the only hotspot. Not only are the LibDem Peers agitating on the Health Bill again this morning, but a blast from the past – ousted LibDem CEO Lord Renard, has popped up in Guardian to stir things up:
“…a major preoccupation for Tory strategists remains keeping the Lib Dems in the coalition until 2015… This would be part of a grand plan to ensure that the Conservative domination of the 20th century is followed by Conservative hegemony in the 21st.”
He seems highly sceptical of the Boundary Reviews, which reminded Guido of Matthew Oakeshott’s important point on the Sunday Politics yesterday. He told Philip Davis that if the Tory right voted against Lords reform, then they would be fighting the next election on the old boundaries:
This one is going to get messy…
