Funny bit from Iain Martin:
It’s been troubling me ever since they got married, I mean ever since they forged a coalition in the national interest. Who or what does the Cameron-Clegg partnership remind me of?
But then it hit me. It’s as though Hugh Grant and Colin Firth have gotten together to make a romantic comedy about the life of a new government - a sequel to Love Actually. As though the young PM Hugh Grant has no overall majority and has to partner with Firth (leader of a small third party in this film rather than the dejected writer in Love Actually). The plot unfolds with “hilarious” results.
Is it just me, but do most people expect the marriage partnership between Nick Clegg and David Cameron to fail? I wonder if the expectations would have been the same if Clegg has expected to wed labor. My guess is it wouldn't be and that there wouldn't be this uneasiness and tendency to find mock the situation rather than to entertain the idea that it has a chance to work. In politics as in real life, people, particularly in Anglo-Saxon countries, are incredible conservative and believe that one ought to marry, to partner with one that shares the same 'identity' to avoid conflicts or even discussions that may left to productive change or to needed growth and maturation.
Nick Clegg and David Cameron had a "mixed" marriage and people are troubled by it because it opens them to new and possibly unsettling possibilities, which they many not be prepared to face.
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