Painful indeed...but is it true? Are "the politics of permanent coalition" really being given serious thought? From the first link, Vulture (18:56) gets my vote. Voting, ah yes, that historical activity, interesting info from last year that I hadn't seen before: since 1964 the number of people identifying with a particular political party has fallen from 45% to 9% and the number of non-voters in the age-group 18-34 has risen from 15% to 50%, FFS!
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Interesting idea, they really need each other to stay in power don't they? I do wonder how much influence the old 'right' of the party has nowadays, your hero John Redwood is always wheeled out for a quote or two but other than that seems condemned to be the angry man of the interweb.
Re the 18-34 group, how much of that is down to the way the curriculum has changed over the years regarding history, economics etc?
Angry? Noooo! But you're right (no pun intended) in a way: if they're not careful they will be completely marginalised and in a dilemma whether to join UKIP or form another party leaving the Cameroons and the Orange Bookers to fill the middle and oping Labour don't re-regain the lost middle would be great to hear what someone with no inkling of British politics to try to decipher what I've just written!
re the 18-34..how many of the 18 lot are the children o the 34s! :-)
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