I’m about to nip out to fleece my “friends” at poker. Sure it’s all, “hello! how are you! Mwah Mwah” but really I’m only there to take their money. Business is business. 

Still, can’t help pointing my finger in this direction whilst shouting “See? See?! See????!!!!”

Yesterday the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives voted together to defeat the government in a House of Commons vote on whether Gurkhas should be allowed to settle in the UK. How did you feel about seeing or hearing about David Cameron’s Conservatives and Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats working together?

Eighty six percent of Conservative supporters and seventy six percent of Liberal Democrat supporters said that they would like to see more of this, with a tiny minority reacting negatively to collaboration (two percent and nine percent respectively). Party cooperation also received large approval from Labour Party supporters (forty one percent) and the non-aligned (sixty three percent).

The sample is tiny, and I’m unsure how credible PoliticsHome polls are as a general rule, so I’m trying not to get too carried away. I still don’t want to see a coalition, but this working together thing certainly meets with my approval – certainly The Opposition is more effective when they concentrate its collective fire on The Government, surely?

When it actually gets results, that’s even better.