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  So then Keith lets stop talking fantasy and look at the real interest of the country. You have critisised the coalition and have been looking at it only from a Labour perspective. What would be your preference to dealing with the election result that would place country before party.
  
  We have an unprecedented financial crisis and the country is at war. If the markets do not like what emerges the bond markets will go into meltdown, interest rates we pay on our mortgages would soar as would the interest paid by the Government. The Government would have to go to the IMF who would impose cuts and those cuts would have to be even highter and more aggressive in part due to the higher interest rates paid by the Government and the damage done to the fragile economy by high interest rates at the wrong time.
  
  So allowing for these facts what would be your solution instead of the coalition for the sake of the country? L:ook at the options.
  
  A minority Conservative Government. It would have to present a tough budget (and Queens Speech) and effectively dare the opposition to bring it down. If another election was forced and the government fell without budget approval then we would get not only another election but a financial meltdown as well.
  
  A minority Labour Government - a non starter, just too weak.
  
  A Lab/Libdem government. It would not be able to command a majority without buying the support of the nationalists. The costs of that would be huge and we heard what that price would be, protection from cuts in Scotland and Wales. In other words the full force of cuts would fall on England. If no cuts emerge then financial meltdown..... It would not last long and another election would follow quickly resulting in a Conservative landslide and in fact, Labour would be luck to have any MPs left in England.
  
  There is no other viable option other than what we have. The Lib/Con coalition is the most stable solution and one best placed to calm the markets and produce a plan that will help resolve the financial mess Labour left us with.
  
  There are a lot of unknowns and we do not know whether the coalition will last once the really hard decisions are made but it is the best and only game in town.

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