Here We Go Again

So the deal was done, the Liberals have taken their chance to be part of the government for the first and only time this century?
Vote Lib Dem and keep the Tories out was a rallying cry in more than just my local constituency, yeah right that worked didn't it!!
It will be interesting to know if Cameron's "sack your MP" statement can be used by disillusioned Lib/Dem voters who never wanted to be Tories.

Anyway we've had the "love in" on the grass and Clegg seems to have forgiven Cameron calling him a joke, and each of them have forgotten rubbishing each others policies.
Typical two faced politicians, we shouldn't be surprised.
It was interesting to see Vince Cable's face when he was asked about working with George Osborne, I get the feeling that little partnership is going to be strained.
Their is still one seat up for grabs (safe Tory seat Thirsk) and as far as I know the Lib/Dems are still putting up a candidate against the Tory, it might be interesting to see how much the Lib/dem vote declines as it seems totally pointless to vote for them now.

So day one of this new era has been and gone and already cracks have started to appear, the National insurance rise proposed by Labour and condemned by Cameron and Clegg has been approved but for employees only (wouldn't want to upset the Tory bosses) and when challenged on Newsnight the leading Tory was very quick to blame the Lib/Dems for it saying it was needed to subsidise the 10k tax break promised by Clegg and co. No surprise that the NI rise comes into effect within a year but the promised no tax for people earning less than 10 grand will be "phased in" probably meaning it's not going to happen, Indeed almost every awkward question was answered with reference to the Lib/Dems policies being responsible so it seems the Tories have not only got the power they wanted but have a ready made scapegoat for any unpopular policies they are likely to introduce.
A change to the constitution was sneaked in meaning that now 55% of MP's are now needed to vote down a government against the old 51%, and a fixed term of 5 years is now the rule so it looks like you're stuck with this lot for the full term unless the Lib/Dems do the decent thing and break up this coalition.

My early prediction for 2015

Record unemployment, record levels of poverty, and frequent riots.
The tories will of course blame the previous Labour government and the polices forced on them by the Lib/Dems.
Vince Cable will be leading a breakaway version of the Liberals who have distanced themselves from Clegg.