As the Liberal Conservative Coalition was formed, the doomsayers and journalist were already sharpening their pencils and awaiting its "inevitable" collapse.
However Cameron and Clegg have clearly stated that this is the birth of a New Politics in the UK. Gone will be the days of confrontational PMQ's, replaced by compromise and debate - all in the national interest rather than for the good of the individula parties. Already ID cards have been scrapped and the warning is given that there will be cuts, something that has been obvious for some time, and hopefully the first to go will be the layer of needless penpushers and beaurocrats that "New Labour" loved so much. Nick Clegg is in charge of electoral reform, hopefully bringing in the Alternative Vote system rather than the unfair first past the post which makes most of our votes pointless, and the Lib Dems "pupil premium" has been taken on board.
There will be downsides of course. Already Foreign Minister William Hague has journeyed across the Atlantic to cosy up the the US, and the Lib Dems plans to scrap Trident has been put on hold. The coalition has been hated by right wing tories and left wing liberals and their supporters.
A statutory 5 year term is what the country, and this coalition need, to get us out of the mess that Labour have got us into. Give them time.
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