A new poll has suggested that support for Britain's Conservative-Liberal Democratcoalition government has dropped sharply since it took the helm in May.
According to the survey carried out for the Guardiannewspaper, as many as 47 percent of the British now disapprove of thejob the coalition is doing, while only 43 percent say they were right toform a government.A similar poll conducted by the same paper in May suggested that 59percent of the British backed the two rival parties to form a governmentafter the general elections.
The May elections failed to present an outright winner. Thecenter-right Conservatives won the most seats in the lower house ofparliament but not enough to rule the country alone. They turned tothird place Liberal Democrats out of despair and formed the coalition.
Political analysts warned at the time that this coalition would notlast a full term as there is a sea of difference between its leaders onhow to govern the country.
Now, the coalition is beginning to fall apart as Liberal Democratsare openly unleashing their true feelings for their coalition partners.
Unions and members of parliament (MPs) are counting down the days tothe coalition's annihilation after Business Secretary Vince Cableannounced war on Rupert Murdoch's media empire recently, and othersenior officials of the Lib-Dem party told undercover reporters thatPrime Minister David Cameron is not a leader who can be trusted.
"I don't want you to trust David Cameron," Care Minister Paul Burstow told people he thought to be Lib Dem voters.
"George Osborne has the capacity to get up one's nose doesn't he?"said deputy leader of the Commons David Heath.
Heath also went on to discuss the Tories in general.
"Some of them just have no experience of how ordinary people live and that's what worries me," he said.
The revelations will pile pressure on a coalition already strainingto keep up its public image after Cable declared war on the News of theWorld and said he would block its bid to take full control of BSkyB.
Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn believes the latest comments prove that the coalition's lifespan is reaching an end.
"It is fascinating that these Lib Dems will say what is blatantlyobvious behind closed doors but still vote for hikes to tuition fees andVAT," he said.
The most recent survey shows support for the main opposition Labourparty is at a three-year high of 39 percent, while only 37 percent backthe Conservatives and support for junior coalition partners, the LibDems, hit a five-year low on just 13 percent.
The coalition inherited a country riddled with a record budgetdeficit from the previous Labour government. It was forced to enforcesome of the harshest public spending cuts not seen in Britain fordecades in an attempt to tackle the deficit.
But these cuts, as well as the hike in university tuition fees,sparked nationwide violent protests and pushed the country into crisis.And people began to talk of a coalition breakdown.
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