This bears repeating from yesterday, because the false argument against the idea of an alleged “anti-Conservative majority” continues to be spun. From The Tone of Our Oppression yesterday:
There is a distinctively anti-Tory majority in this country that is not the same as the arguable anti-Labour or anti-Lib Dem majority one could extrapolate from the exact same polls, because both Labour and Liberal Democrat support comes from a place of shared progressive values, no matter how different the proposals of each individual party as to how best to manifest those progressive left-leaning values in practice, whereas the Tories are alone in popular support for regressive, right-wing thinking.
As I said this morning: on investing in the economy and securing the recovery now, and holding off cuts until 2011, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats are in agreement and opposed to Conservative plans. Both parties are also in agreement for the need for electoral reform, whereas the Conservatives oppose it. On that basis, the two parties – Labour and Lib Dem – absolutely do form an “anti-Conservative majority”.
Indeed, right now, the vote share is like this:
Conservatives – 36.2%
Labour/Lib Dem combined – 52%
Combined with the commonality of shared progressive policy and opposition to key Tory platforms, I’d call this a distinctive and morally authoritative anti-Conservative majority formed by a Lib/Lab pact.
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