You’d never know that a lot of people didn’t want this coalition to happen. You’d never know that a lot of people think it will fail. You’d never know that these same folk are now hell-bent on fulfilling their own bitter prophecies.

At least, you wouldn’t if you’re a hack. “Sod the agenda lads” they say, “let’s gerrit int’ paper”.

‘Insiders’ have told the Times that Vince Cable would’ve preferred to do a deal with Labour. He spoke to Gordon on the telephone. He did too. Lots. And on the weekend. And Gordon told Alistair Campbell, and Ali multiplied the number of calls by three, and then Mandy wrote it up with his trademark phrase ‘the disclosure risks opening a rift at the heart of the Lib-Con coalition and underlines the pressures it will come under from inherent tensions between politically divergent partners’. You can almost hear Peter the Pussycat purring the words over the phone.

Vince used to be a Labour councillor. Of course he’d have preferred a deal with Labour. But then the LibDem negotiators met Baby-Face Balls, and that was that.

Simon Heffer is of course on Cameron’s case about the 55% idea. So was The Slog, but we didn’t turn it into a personal attack. Dacre the Unwell over at the Mail hasn’t stopped taking about taxes and betrayal and taxes and Tory unrest and taxes since Dave got through the door of 10 Downing Street. The ToryDems want stability, and deficit reduction. What else would the Tory Right now expect to happen?

I think an interesting sea-change may be taking shape here. It’s very early to be saying this, but you never know: the ones left out of this Coalition Government are, almost all of them, the adversarial Hate-Troops of British politics: Tebbit, Balls, Whelan, Campbell, and all those dozens of courageous Tory Nasties who never want to go on the record.

We’ve already dealt with how the Balls factor stuffed any chance Labour had of a ‘progressive alliance’ (which is already parked in my head as a concept close to ‘political correctness’). I think the Left spinners should calm down, or get their kicks in future harmlessly winding up Adam Boulton. But as none of the self-serving Tory whingers will disappear just yet, here’s a thought which might stand a chance of shutting up at least some of them.

On Tory Bear’s site you’ll find a list of those seats where UKIP deprived a Conservative candidate of victory. There are twenty-one of them. Or put another way, enough to have given Cameron a big outright win….because don’t forget, you have to multiply that number of seats by two – loss for Labour/LibDem + win for Tories.

So chaps, this is where right-wing Little Englanderism got you. (Above all, it allowed Balls the Beast his hour of Pyrrhic victory in Morley).

I suggest also that the No Turning Back brigade read the Dacre muck-sheet’s front pages during the campaign: plenty there to give complete credibility to the Campbells busy telling nervous floating voters that the Nasties were still there, hiding behind Cameron. Anyone unable to see that Dave’s biggest millstone in the election campaign was Mrs Thatcher’s ‘legacy’ are being willfully obtuse.

We have a coalition today because, one way or another, the tribalists forced Cameron and Clegg together. It is the truth of it, it is deliciously ironic, and that reality cheers me up no end.

This is not because I’m all fluffy and centreish – quite the opposite. I just think that a Government representing the reality and commonsense of the mainstream will always be far more radical about (and representative of) the real concerns of real people.

I think it will be tougher with the police, and the toadying plot-loss of its senior careerists. I think it will protect vulnerable single mums rather than jail them on the basis of cod-psych twaddle. I think it will be more than all-mouth-and-trousers with the banks. I think it will look at a fairer voting system – whereas Labour would’ve rushed through simple AV for its own ends. I think it will give soldiers better equipment, and show some reality in relation to Britain’s nuclear costs and capacity. I think it will display better instincts about community responsibility, and reining in the Big State. It will do all these things because two sets of views will be tempered – into some sort of workmanlike steel which will do far more to appease the markets than any soi-disant progressive alliance could ever have done.

Does anyone seriously think a LibLab pact would’ve tackled the UK’s obscene deficit when their academic economists don’t even understand credit markets? Does anyone imagine Cameron could’ve started slashing budgets and services right away without serious unrest being stoked up by a more united Opposition?

Yes, I think the Coalition may well falter (even fall) in the light of the Eurozone’s demise. But I hope it doesn’t – first because this would be a terrible result for the Country I love; and second because, if successful, it stands a chance of locking the loonies out of government – at least for the foreseeable future, and hopefully for good.

The British mainstream citizen is either vociferously or quietly opposed to Harmanite feminism, Ballsite cloth-cap Socialism, anal political correctness, police duplicity, barmpots like Nigel Farage, Tebbit bike-mounting, and other pieces of unscientific nonsense. It has endured thirty years of polemics from the Mad Handbag’s decisive markets, all the way through to Barmy Brown’s Manse munificence. It has watched as both, in their own one-eyed bigoted way, landed this country in the mire. Now it would prefer good governance to political rhetoric.

If you doubt this, the study released yesterday by YouGov shows that at 60%, approvers of the Coalition outnumber opposers by two to one. So if nothing else, it would be really good now if the losers (in every sense of the word) accepted the majority’s democratic decision, left the Stage – and gave the real Great Britain a chance.