Throwing your endorsement behind the Lib-Dems may have cost Labour a number of seats to the Tory party, any benefit accrued to the progressive wing of the Lib-Dem Party was more or less wiped out by Tory gains which ultimately leads to the strengthening of the "Orange Book" faction-- AKA Closeted Conservatives. The comments section below your online election 2010 coverage is chock-a-block of calls for your resignations. These should follow in the wake of a Lib-Con pact.
It's absolutely disgraceful to see the leftiest paper in the UK abandon it's natural political home as you did. That betrayal will have long lasting consequences as the Tory and Lib-Dems conspire to cut public spending to the bone triggering scenes that may make the Greek riots look like a cricket match.
Every stitch in a job protesters forehead, every fractured rib in a protesters body and destitute family put out on the street, can justifiably thank you for abandoning the party in the face of the Murdoch press onslaught on Labour.
Take a bow faithful brothers and sisters: Martin Kettle, Polly Toynbee and Paddy Wintour et al. The next five years of Lib-Con austerity have your squirmy editorial finger marks all over them.
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Lib-Con uuuurrrggghhhh.
It's fairly representative as the thread progresses:
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Magpie11
7 May 2010, 7:26AM
I hope the Guardian Editors who decided to back the Liberals and thereby help the Tories are happy with their work. They has potentially lumbered us with the Posh Boy. Shame on you. Since 1966 every election I have witnessed has had a common theme. It has been that "this time the Liberals will make the breakthrough" and each and ever time they have failed. Stop kidding yourselves and the country.
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