Head and Heart

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I caught a bit of Nick Clegg launching the Liberal Democrats election manifesto and I have to say i thought he was by far the most effective of all the UK party leaders. 

Not surprisingly, Nick talked up the likelihood of another Coalition Government and the role that the Lib Dems might play, mischievously offering to provide the Tories with a 'heart' and Labour with a 'brain', if negotiations get underway with other parties in a hung Westminster Parliament.

Now this is a good line of argument for the Lib Dems to pursue because no single UK party seems capable of winning more than one third of the popular vote, because the electorate simply does not believe that the Tories or Labour have all the answers.

In which case compromise is not just inevitable, but desirable as well from the point of view of a modern, representative democracy.

Rachel Sylvester wrote an article for The Times recently exploring this Wizard of Oz theme and it seems that Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems have pinched it for themselves.       

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