It has not failed to come to the attention to this column that Clegg and Cameron are extremely lucky. No, I do not refer to their privileged educational upbringing. And this column has very little to say about classed based criticisms of Cameron's Eton education. George Orwell, after all, was an Etonian. Private education is no barrier to becoming an enlightened progressive individual.
No Clegg and Cameron's luck will probably be Europe. Both of them see the EU differently. Their luck is situated ion the corridors of power of every EU capital and Brussels. The exasperation at getting the Lisbon Treaty or EU Constitution means no big EU projects are on the horizon. This means that the one area the Con-Dem coalition disagrees with itself to its very core will unlikley be on the agenda.
Given that Europe did for Thatcher, and proved so difficult for Major, the Clegg-Cameron love in, is very lucky indeed.
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