Nick Cleggs bid to reform the House of Lords, making it a mostly elected chamber has sailed into choppy waters.
Yesterday MPs in the commons were due to vote on Lords reform, but fearing defeat and an unprecedented backbench rebellion the government were forced into ditching the vote to limit the time for debating the bill.
Despite 91 Tory MPs rebelling, the government still won the vote on the principle of reform with a majority of 338 votes, but the path to law for Lords reform stretched even further into the distance, with many backbenchers saying they have killed the bill off.
However Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg viewed the events of yesterday from a very different perspective, saying it was a “huge triumph” (interesting), he then went a step further adding that if the Tories failed to back the bill there would be “consequences”.
After saying that he could have at least elaborated a bit more, consequences, I mean he sounds like a kid in the playground who’s said let’s play football and all the other kids have gone no we don’t really want to and then he’s ran off crying.
This is front line politics grow up, you had an idea lots of people didn’t like it, I’m surprised he’s not used to it by now.
After the 2010 election the country was in a political stand-still as Clegg and the Lib Dems held the Tories to ransom in exchange for their support despite the fact they only got about 50 seats, and ever since have seen their ideas rejected and their ratings tumble, now they’re just clutching at straws and to top it all off threatening their coalition partners.
I think they need to realise that they are only a very small percentage of the coalition (less than 20) and that by all means propose ideas and debate the ideas of others but don’t act like a child with a tantrum because you didn’t get your way, I expect that from a 5-year-old child not a 45-year-old man who is deputy Prime Minister.
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