And the Sideshow Continues.

Yesterday (14/4/11) the British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron gave a speech in which he called for immigration to be cut. Before he'd even given the speech Vince Cable, a Liberal Democrat (LibDem) minister in the ConDem coalition criticised the speech for fuelling extremism. This led to lots of people getting all excited about how it showed a split was emerging between the Conservatives and the LibDems and the coalition could collapse at any second.

It's a shame then that it was all contrived. On May 5th there will be local elections in parts of the UK and Parliamentary elections in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The LibDems are worried that they are losing their identity in the coalition on account of them just saying yes to all of the Conservative policies. So the leader of the Conservatives and the leader of the LibDems got together and planned to have this little tiff in order to convince the voters that there is a difference between the two parties and that either party has some sort of influence over an immigration policy that was decided on about six months before they were "elected."

So I don't know how Britain is going to export democracy to Libya because it died out here about two years ago.