Are we on the Road to a Grand Coalition between Tory and Labour Blairites?

I have thought for some time that the only establishment solution to a jaundiced and disenchanted electorate is for the two twin parties to combine against the voters in a grand coalition, much as often happens in Germany.

 

I tended to think that the trigger for this would be the unavoidable economic crisis which is hurtling towards us as I write but whose existence will be denied by everyone until after the polls close on May 7 (and ceaselessly called in aid after that moment).

 

So I was intrigued by this article in last Saturday's 'Guardian’ newspaper by Ian Birrell, who, I believe,  is quite well-informed about the upper reaches of the Tory Party.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/02/tory-labour-unity-7-may-national-government-constitutional-crisis

 

Neither of the two big parties wants to be in sole charge in the coming five years, and neither of them, in any case,  is in much danger of *being* in sole charge, given the state of the polls.  A defeat at the polls, plus a wipeout in Scotland, would give Labour’s Blairites the chance to stage a putsch against Ed Miliband, who might well not wait to be overthrown in any case.   

 

And, with the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act in place, both parties would pretty much hold each other hostage for the next five years. What follows then, of course, is an unfathomable mystery. But don’t be surprised if this happens.