What a week in politics we've had, haven't we? It was exciting enough, and then when Gordon Brown surprised everyone by trying to get into bed with Nick Clegg and the Cleggheads, I nearly wet myself! I mean: what an orgy that would have been!
Of course such an arrangement was destined to go nowhere, and strangely I found myself agreeing with David Blunkett, a person I've often found it hard to see eye to eye with - What? I am The Bitch, aren't I! - and the Liberal Democrats really were "behaving like every harlot in history", even though I suspect anything Brown would be the very last thing the eager crowd would want to find in bed with them! Thankfully, it seems they were only kidding when playing up to Labour's charms, as opposed to skidding.
Anyway, in the end we have still landed up with a love-in to enjoy watching, and that's the main thing, isn't it? We need to enjoy our politics. I know there are people like me the world over, all waiting to see if Nick Clegg and David Cameron truly are the Ant & Dec of politics, or do in fact turn out to be the Laurel & Hardy - and just who is going to get who into "another fine mess!"
I see a few stick-in-the-mud party faithful on both sides of the arrangement are quietly groaning, and I hope they don't become too troublesome. After all, given the result we the electorate came up with, what other sensible option was there but this coalition? What else was likely to keep the greedy financial markets happy and hopefully prevent a run on the pound? As soon as Gordon lifted the bed sheet to invite Nick in, the pound started to fall - and that was despite all the good news earlier that day.
The Liberal Democrats who feel betrayed might be surprised to discover a large proportion voting for them were not their own faithful, or even tactical Labour supporters trying to keep the Conservatives out. I feel many would have been people whose natural home is more likely to be with the Conservatives, but who became a little worried by the many stories and memories Labour bandied about of the Thatcher years - not all of which were that bad by any means! These are people who could never vote for Labour, and the Liberal Democrats were the best they had left for them.
Those unconvinced but really at heart Conservative types, people who cannot vote for Labour, who don't believe the state should take everything away from them and then begrudgingly give some of it back, and who hate all the petty rules, regulations and jumped-up authoritarian Hitler-like officials this kind of "socialism" relies on, either have to abstain or vote for the Liberal Democrats if they want to have any real say in the make up of our political spectrum. The party stalwarts may not agree with me, but I feel a large number of Lib-Dem followers are not really anywhere near so left of centre as many of them believe they are, or would like.
David Cameron has wrestled the Conservatives nearer and nearer to the centre, and this coalition at a stroke completed the task for him. When this government is over, and if it is successful in getting us through the tough years ahead, despite all the pain the coalition will have to administer, I think we may easily land up with two parties: the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, fighting over the middle ground - and, should the electoral system suffer a change before then, Labour could become the third and irrelevant party, the new