Alexander slams talk of Lab/Lib coalition as “nonsense”

General Election Chair Douglas Alexander has today slammed talk of a Labour/Lib Dem coalition after the next election as “nonsense”. Speaking at Scottish Labour Conference in Perth, the Shadow Foreign Secretary said that the next election is “quintessentially winnable” for Labour, and was scathing about the Lib Dems. According to reports, Alexander said:

“The Liberal Democrats want to pretend that they are the internal opposition to the Conservatives – they’re not the internal opposition, they are the enablers of the Conservatives. The reason David Cameron is sitting in Downing Street is because Nick Clegg is sitting next to him at the cabinet table.

“It was Nick Clegg, Malcolm Bruce, Robert Smith, Danny Alexander, all the rest of them, they voted for the bedroom tax, voted to triple tuition fees, and have got it wrong on the economy month after month after month. We need to hold them to account for that.

“In that sense anybody who suggests we should try and have a coalition with them, it’s nonsense.

“We are working and planning for a majority Labour government. We will deliver a majority Labour government.”