There must be something about New Labour politics which offends the Old gods of the North, for no sooner have the Miliband brothers announced plans to stand as leadership candidates, than the Icelandic ash cloud returns to the skies above Britain.
However, it was Lord (Paddy) Ashdown who looked like thwarting the New Politics of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition last week, along with former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In short, the UK electorate was being asked to support a so-called "Progressive Alliance", whose leader would be appointed after the Labour Party decided a successor to Brown, who by then had conveniently offered to resign.
I'm sorry, but most of the ordinary voting public wanted a leader elected by the people, a mandate to which new Prime Minister David Cameron has most claim. My guess is that such a "Progressive Alliance" could well have be deemed unconstitutional, and that the Liberal-Democrats took the only real course of action open to them in joining the Government, a move which was endorsed by their conference last weekend.
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