Modeling Journey

Lest people rush to judgment about what can or cannot happen in Canada, let me quote details about the actual Canadian version of a Cameron-Clegg model of a working partnership that happened (and was legal!):

Some important elements within my own caucus and wider party were dead set against any coalition with either the Liberals or the Conservatives.  The NDP would lose its purity and its principles, the argument went,  and would do better to vote on a case by case basis in the House, leaving the Tories to govern.