article_snippet.sent: Nick Clegg said it would be a 'messy' way to run the country, and risked instability with the future of a government put in peril with every late night vote.
article_snippet.sent: I think this idea that you have a government with a whole array of single issue parties all pulling this way and that
article_snippet.sent: , I think it's a recipe for insomnia as votes will be strung out night after night after night in the House of Commons.
article_snippet.sent: But it's also a recipe for a messy way of governing the country.'
article_snippet.sent: I think what's different about this election - and this election will loom large in tonight's leaders' debate - is, I think, increasingly people are acknowledging that no one is going to win outright this time either. '
article_snippet.sent: So in a sense what you need to choose ... is what party you prefer, but also - which I accept is complex - is which politicians, which parties, would you prefer working together after May 7.'
article_snippet.sent: The only thing that is relevant is what are the cards that are dealt to us by millions of people doing this wonderful thing, putting a simple cross next to somebody's name in a ballot box on May 7.
article_snippet.sent: They will tell us what combination is possible.'