Ashdown: it's all about the cuts posted by Richard Seymour

I don't really have time to write anything substantial on the Liberal wipe-out, or the SNP's out-flanking of a very shabby Labour campaign in Scotland, but it's worth at least noticing this:


This, following a colossal tantrum about the Tories' dishonesty in the No2AV campaign and hints that the coalition would be more of a 'business' arrangement from now on (by which we are to understand that previously it was a honeymoon?), boils it down nicely, wouldn't you say? It certainly explains why the Liberals will hang on through any loss, any humiliation, any ostensible betrayal. Their number one priority is not education, electoral reform, or tax justice. Their number one priority, Cable's fooling-noone histrionics to one side, is to protect and advance neoliberal capitalism through the most savage cuts agenda in living memory. That's all they're hanging in for now.

Labels: austerity, cuts, david cameron, elections, lib dems, liberals, local council elections, neoliberalism, nick clegg, tories, tuition fees, welfare