Labour, Lib Dems and Greens have a lot in common - why not work together?

Here's a challenge! Have a look at the following tweets and guess which political party tweeted them:

1. In breaking their manifesto  promise and failing to protect the state pension, the Conservatives have plunged older people into a cost of living crisis.  This out of touch Government has left poorer pensioners out in the cold.

2. Youth services cut, Crime Rising, The Tories are failing our communities.

3. NEW: Inflation at 5.5%. Food. Petrol. Energy. We're all feeling it. This isn't just a global problem. The Tories have failed to get a grip and working people are paying the price.

4. 1 million adults in the UK went an entire day without food last month. 4.7 million experienced food insecurity. This is the reality of the cost of living crisis.

5. Climate action can bring other benefits for fuel poverty, health and warmer homes. There's nowhere better to focus that action than on social housing.


Answer: Lib Dem, Labour, Labour, Green, Green

I don't think anyone who wants a change of Government would disagree with any of the above. Of course there are differences between the parties - but when you look at the policies of Labour, Lib Dem and Green, policy by policy, there is a huge amount of common ground. 

So, why is it so difficult to work together? Even within a single party it's a challenge! Every party is a coalition to a certain extent. The difference between the Tories and the rest is that the Tories recognise the nature of their coalition and manoeuvre things to be united enough at election time. The opposition parties need to work together, otherwise the danger is the next election will deliver another Tory Government. Imagine that? After everything that they have done since 2010. 

Surely they won't get in again? Sadly they might unless we get our acts together. And don't give me the lines "the Lib Dems are as bad as the Tories" or "the Greens are a single issue bunch" or "Corbyn would've won in 2017 if the Right of the Labour Party hadn't undermined him" or "No one knows what Keir Starmer stands for".  These sentiments play into the Tories. Time for some more progressive thinking. Here's hoping.


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