Which coalition would you vote for?

I have no idea who to vote for any more.  The difference between the three main parties is, to paraphrase some American wag, like the difference between Coke, Pepsi and Virgin cola. All are neo-liberal now to a greater or lesser extent, believing that choices of public service provision should be decided by 'the market,' and that PFI initiatives, which massively enrich private shareholders at the public's expense, are the best use of public money. 

On top of which, the massive amounts of quantitative easing supplied by the BofE have gone, quite shamelessly, into the coffers of the very banks that brought us all to our knees.

I find myself hankering for a Michael Foot, or even an Arthur Scargill to erupt onto the scene and poke a few leaden-brained politicians in the eye with a sharp socialist stick.  Was it not Michael Foot who wanted to nationalise the banks in the late 70s?   A prescient man, it now seems.

I am also unable to vote Labour ever again until they repudiate the Iraq war and the cult of Tony Blair. The Tories will wander off to any half-decent war without so much as a second thought, in order to sell arms to both sides, particularly if the USA demands it of us. And as for the Lib Dems, what a sad sell-out they have become.

So, I've decided to pioneer the new electoral idea of actively voting FOR coalitions. It seems to me that almost by definition no party can ever contain all the wisdom (or any of it as we currently see) that the country needs to get back onto its feet and build a hard-working, fair, prosperous, gentle and worthwhile society. So let's change the ballot papers in order to allow us to specifiy combinations of political parties that we feel might have a better chance of doing something that we regard as meaningful at Westminster.

I've given this some thought, and am happy to announce that my chosen coalition is the Greens and UKIP. This looks to me like the right combination of enterprise and ecology, embodying subsidiarity and small-is-beautiful thinking, sensible localism and nationalism, redressing the out-of-balance relationship with Europe while at the same time protecting the legitimate commons of air, water, land, renewables, and so on. Both parties are also the only ones making coherent anti-war noises, though for different reasons.  And even if this last point were the only one, it would be enough for me.