Unrequited Love?!
Ordovicius asks whether David Cameron’s overtures towards the Liberal Democrats can be “categorised as a case of unrequited love” and “[w]ill it lead to Dave moping like a spurned lover?” Personally, I can’t see it like that at all. Instead, it seems to me far more like Cameron setting out his stall as the man who is willing to make compromises and the man who cannot be blamed if Britain ends up with a minority government of any party.
Rather than unrequited love, it more about setting the Lib Dems up. By suggesting that he is willing to compromise should the occasion demand it, Cameron is giving the Lib Dems no choice about whom to select as coalition partner should the results demand it. It is about setting the Conservatives up as the non-partisan politician, as the leader who will compromise and lead a coalition government if that is what the electorate decide.
In stead of unrequited love, it’s more about stitching the Lib Dems up, and giving them no choice but to select the Conservatives as coalition partners should the situation arise.
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