Some great comments on this
BBC forum, Should the UK have a unity government? - inspired by the Lib Dems in the cabinet stories.
They're either woefully ill-informed, written in Mike Giggler style, or they're advocating dictatorship because it makes the trains run on time and because all politicans are irredeemably evil.
Mind you, reading these has made me think again about the wisdom of universal suffrage
This is simply another malicious attempt by the Labour government to Americanise our political system.
Doug, Watford
I will point to the war cabinet of world war 2 of how this can work very effectively.
We should be working towards a better country, an opposition to the government slows this down, it opposes government plans.
Chris Wood, Fareham, United Kingdom
It's an excellent idea. Soon, the government you have in the UK will be as efficient and useful as we have here in the US.
(Sarcastic? Me?)
David Weingart, Levittown, NY, United States
Can governments "of all the talents" serve the people better?
What talents are you talking about?
How can you turn dummies into talents when they lack any brains?
The BBC's Daleks have more intelligence and could do a better job.
Barry Verona, Mont-Tremblant, Canada
I have a dream - We find an individual, they produce a manifesto, a series of individuals stand for them in each constituency, when they win a landslide against the bankrupt power mongers in our 3 party system they pass one law to give all power to the individual for 5 years fixed, they stand as reps for this individual in constituencies, the individual appoints who he or she wants to run things professionally lets see which gives us in UK the better government
CB, London
What we need is a GOVERNMENT, be it unity or one party. What we currently have is a country, or should it be countries?, governed by a whole raft of quango's many headed by friends of Blair and his cronies and none of whom were elected nor are they and their staff accountable to the electorate.
Nigel Moore
It hardly seems to matter which of the three "liberal" parties our MP's are drawn from. As they all have the same pro-EU, multicultural, politically correct agenda we have virtually become a one party state.
Hugh Mungus, What's left of England
If Mr Brown had not so selfishly kept the Chancellor's job for the entire period of Mr Blair's reign the problems he now faces might not be quite so acute. Mr Major was given a good run of the great offices of state before he succeeded Mrs Thatcher, and he was able to call on the services of many able colleagues who had received comparable opportunity in high office. Mr Brown now has to hit the ground running in areas he has not had to contend with until now.
Bob Sharkey, Frome, Somerset
