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[goslow]

I'd like to see a system with far weaker political parties, with 650 (well, 500 would be better) individual people who had won the right to represent their constituents on their own merit - not on their party's merit.

OK, just out of interest, how is a government formed in such a system? Or are you thinking of something more like the US, with legislature completely separate from the executive?

[biffvernon]

So let's not have parties - just a parliament made up of independent MPs like they do in the Inuit territories of northern Canada.

Voting Clegg to get Miliband is just the first step.

[Quintus]

Part of the LibDem price could well include Brown stepping down.

Yes, it's less a case of Vote Clegg get Brown, rather Vote Clegg get Miliband.

Why David Miliband looks more likely to be next PM

Was Britain's next prime minister even on the stage last night? Perhaps not ... with David Cameron unable to deliver a knock-out blow for the Tories, it looks increasingly likely that Clegg will call for Brown's head as the price for forming a Lib-Lab pact to keep Labour in office.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/62566,new ... e-minister

[biffvernon]

Clegg won't need to make the call. Brown will resign straight away. The Labour Party will elect Miliband as leader and there will be no great difficulty in forming a coalition government. Lots of Lib Dem policies are popular with a lot of labour MPs. £10000 tax threshold, abandon Trident and ID cards, keep the foxhunting ban and talk about PR. The traditional split of the centre left that has allowed right wing government all too often will be gone and we can get on to solve the real problems of how to run a global economy with diminishing energy without causing global warming.