a new politics?
by Benjamin on May 20, 2010
This week something exciting / scary / interesting / curious… well, something NEW is happening. And it’s happening on both sides of the Atlantic. In Kentucky, a Tea Party candidate has won a republican primary to run for Senate, and in the UK, a conservative-liberal democrat coalition has formed the first coalition government since WWII. The popular name for the coalition is lib-con, although some have referred to it as con-dem’d. Maybe it is. Maybe the tea party will be short-lived. But for the moment we have a new UK coalition agreement, which thinks it “has the potential for era-changing, convention-challenging, radical reform.” Only time will tell.
Tags: Conservatives, David Cameron, Liberal Democrat, Nick Clegg, Politics, Rand Paul, tea-party, UK, USA
