UK’s Lib Dem MP: Coalition with Tories not to reoccur
A British Liberal Democrat lawmaker has emphasized that another coalition government between the currently-ruling Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats will not reoccur.
The prediction by Andrew George, the Liberal Democrat MP representing St Ives, came while his party’s leader Nick Clegg has insisted that the political party is determined to form a coalition with either the rival Conservative or the Labor Party, the UK-based daily Guardian reported Monday.
According to the report, George told a recent public meeting that a second coalition with the Tories “is not going to happen,” adding: “We have had enough of it. The Tories would not want it and I am sure my party would not go for it.”
He further pointed out at meeting of the consumer group Health Watch that his party knew when it entered the coalition with the ruling Tories in 2010 that “it was going to toxify the Liberal Democrats.”
“When the nice party formed some kind of arrangement with the nasty party you tend to get toxified as a result of it, but we felt we were doing it for the good of the country, rather than for the good of the party,” George added.
He then went on to predict that no political party would be able to secure an overall majority in the House of Commons.
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