Vidic happy at United

Where else do you go after United says the Serb defender, if the rumours were right Real Madrid or Barca, and if there are two clubs as big as us it's them. I hope he stays all the same.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7695666/Manchester-United-v-Stoke-City-Nemanja-Vidic-says-nowhere-better-than-Old-Trafford.html

Meanwhile his defensive partner isn't happy with his disappointing season having just started just 11 premier league games. He could say and not having been fit or having played that well in those 11 appearances.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/may/08/rio-ferdinand-manchester-united-england-rest
I'd be surprised if he played more than half our premier league games next season, in fact Fergie may save him for the big league games and our European games in a bid to utilise him best.

As the see through PR stories of a rebuffed bid to the Glazer's disappear from the press the red knights carry on preparing their bid unimpressed with the reports
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/may/07/red-knights-manchester-united

Head in the sand Scudamore, is impressed by the "fantastic Glazers" and sees nothing to worry about matters at Anfield. What an utter utter prick.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article7119988.ece

Meanwhile the losses and problems pile up at Liverpool. I think the story of the summer is whether Torres and Gerrard follow Benitez out of the club or will they be able to hold onto one of them. My feeling is if one leaves the other will straight away ask for a transfer and will be granted their wish. They will come nowhere near the top four if that happens.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/liverpool/article7120084.ece

Two differing Tory takes on Camerons position, first from Matthew Parris who thinks Cameron is playing his hand well. Of course he was on the left of the party when he was an MP
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article7120060.ece
Benedict Brogan political editor of the Torygraph is more to the right and sees big problems in Cameron's position.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7693236/What-price-will-David-Cameron-pay-for-the-keys.html
That sounds more realistic to me.

Tom Baldwin thinks the labour party has coped suprisingly well to the events yesterday, and has stayed well disciplined in the circumstances. Of course if they or the liberals had got 20 more seats that would have been a hell of a lot better, but the result has potentially been the kindest to them of all the three parties to my mind. If it takes the opportunity it may be given.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7120179.ece

Steve Richards reckons that Clegg and the Liberals must repel Tory blandishments and go all out for proportional representation, it could well be the one and only chance they get. As he says every piece of voting reform in our history has come out of political expediency not principle.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/clegg-has-a-real-chance-to-change-the-system-he-must-not-blow-it-1968188.html

My ideal scenario would be for the lib dems to allow the tories to run as a minority government with a mandate to run the economy and no more. No coalition and most definitely no Liberal in the cabinet. This would leave Cameron in a very weak position with his own party and in the country. His activist base and probably his own backbenchers would not take long to start sniping at the traitor to the Thatcherite cause and would cause him as much trouble as Major was caused. What the Tory press would do i don't know, but they would be hard pressed to give him an easy ride if his own backbench wasn't. The man who they had given the benefit of the doubt in the expectation of their turn in power, but didn't deliver would be a dead man walking. He would go down in Tory history alongside Heath as not one of us.
For both Liberals and Labour this would leave them to watch as the tories have to take all the unpopular cuts that the country still don't really appreciate are coming. If Osborne is in charge, not that i can't see that happening, but you live in hope, there is every chance they will make a complete horlicks of it and send us into a double dip recession almost straight away. Of course this will make the Tories massively unpopular come the next election which will surely be in only one or two years time.
This should be good news for the Lib dems who would hopefully make inroads in the south. But it could be even better news for the Labour who could rise from the dead if they make the right decisions. If they go for a reformist new leader such as Milliband, oe even my more left field choice Cruddas as a real break from the past, they could go into the next election promising real change embracing STV proportional representation and real constitutional reform. The problem is will the Balls, Straw and union tribalist clique strong be strong enough to block the real modernistaion that new labour should have been about but never was. It has to be said that after the last 13 years they don't deserve that chance but it could roll into their laps if the play it right.
Obviously that dream scenario depends on, probably too much, the labour party seeing the big picture and the ultimate prize for centre left politics. On past form you could not trust that party to do the right thing. So maybe Steve Richards is right that the Lib dems should do with labour to run on an agreed platform for two years with a referendum on PR within that time. My problem with that is i wouldn't be as sure of PR supporters winning the referendum as the coalition would be seen to have been acting in it's own interest and being potentally immensly unpopular with the electorate due to the depressed economy.
As Will Hutton said on the BBC yesteday this is the most important moment in British politics for the last 30 or 40 years. Probably the most pivotal moment since we joined the EU. Nick Clegg has a massive reponsibility to progressive politics in this country to get this right.

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