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Lib Dems could swing policies in hung parliament                5/2/10

 

                                                                                                           

Sirs,

In a recent national newspaper interview Liberal Democratic leader Nick Glegg outlined his party's promised social policies should the Lib Dems have any influence in the next UK government.

 

 

One such pledge could be summarised as follows:

 

Society as a whole must actively and wholeheartedly embrace the concept of homosexuality. No individual will be exempt, including presumably all Hebrides News readers.

 

Schoolteachers will lead the action - their views on the subject to be routinely  dictated by the government and conveyed word for word to their impressionable pupils.

 

Mr Glegg's proposal will have gone down in the Western Isles like a lead Zeppelin ( apologies to Messrs's Plant, Page and Co} sending his party's already low rating in electoral polls spiraling in the same direction.

 

Many  people may complacently dismiss Glegg's proposals as a  non starter but there is a very real possibility this PC edict could be in force nationwide sooner rather than later. That objective achieved by party political "you scratch my back" manouevering in a future UK hung parliament Holyrood, situated in Scotland's gay capital will surely follow suit

 

This is yet another reason for avoiding such an unsatisfactory parliamentary arrangement following the upcoming UK election.The spectacle  of Glegg, Cameron, Brown and Salmond ( the SNP's Westminster leader in all but name) engaged in an endless stalemate of bickering and bargaining will only succeed in enfeebling and dividing  the country.

 

It is for this reason that residents in the  Western Isles and indeed nationwide previously inclined to vote Labour who switched allegiance at the last election for what they believed were legitimate reasons should carefully consider their position approaching the next UK election.

 

An outright victory for one of the two main parties- although admittedly disappointing for the runner up- would be preferable to the alternative hung parliament where Glegg's policies will  gain a foothold through the back door.

 

In practical terms an SNP victory in the Western Isles constituency would be one step closer to a hung parliament whereas a Labour victory would be one step further away from that danger.The choice is yours.

Iain M Macdonald

Miavaig

Uig

Isle of Lewis

                                                                      

 

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