Reply #41: But Labour wasn't up for a multi-party coalition

[muriel_volestrangler]

and so the choice was a coalition with the Tories, or just let the Tories govern on their own. That would keep the Lib Dems ideologically pure, and they could have hoped for Labour to get its act together, the Tories to screw things up, and then for another hung parliament with the combined Labour and Lib Dem seats to be enough to form a government. But it would need all of those to happen. And then Labour would still not be keen on PR.