It?s funny how all this vitriol about Lib Dem ?betrayal? comes almost exclusively from Labour supporters. If you remember they first tried to negotiate a power sharing deal with Labour but the Labour party refused to compromise on anything. Cynically in my opinion, and I?m pretty sure on the advice of that Mandleson character, because Labour had no interest in winning this election. It was a ?good one to loose? as the next few years were going to make any party in power deeply unpopular. If the Labour party had responded in good faith and in a spirit of mutual trust and cooperation a stable government with an ideology based on social justice could have been formed. Instead they are playing politics in an attempt to kick their biggest threat, the Liberals, into touch*. So now we have to put up with a compromise where conservative policies which most of the population find morally detestable have to be tolerated in exchange for a few bones being thrown to the liberal agenda. Most supporters of the Lib Dems are not happy with the outcome necessarily but they do understand it while this bile filled bluster about betrayal comes from people who didn?t even vote from them. *Don?t think for a minute mind that the Tories don?t currently have a gaggle of smarm trying to manipulate the current situation to the same ends.