The coalition and a politics of the middle?

Vincent Lloyd has pointed out that people either want political participation to feel good or they want to complain that the system is broken, but they don’t want to get on with the difficult work of trying to reform the imperfect institutions we have. The latter he terms ‘political asceticism’, a certain discomfort and frustration with what we’ve got, but a commitment to it nevertheless. It strikes me that this is exactly what the Con-Dems will need if they are to survive.