UK Politics / Reply to Ann (was Re: Is Umbridge a commentary on British govt. ed

[muscatel1988]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at ...>
wrote:
>
> The expressed view that many European countries function perfectly 
> well with coalitions is not a position I could agree with. 

Sorry for butting in here, but I'm afraid I don't follow this.  I am a
voting citizen of a European country which has had only coalition
government since 1977, apart from one nine month period in 1982.  We
function rather well, and for some years have been experiencing
astonishing economic growth and prosperity.

You may be philosophically opposed to the idea of coalition, and
there's much to be said for such a position, but it's simply untrue to
say that coalitions necessarily function poorly.

Mus