In recent months and years, the Green Party, Labour Party and Liberal Democrats have largely converged with regards to their ideology and even their operations. Whether this be through forming coalitions together, supporting essentially the exact same policies, or through election pacts where they practically share their candidates. The question is: why bother continuing the way they are with 3 separate and divided parties, when they could join together in a more permanent coalition?

We have seen these permanent coalitions in many other countries, including the CDU-CSU in Germany and the Liberal-National Coalition in Australia. These coalitions allow for shared resources, shared candidates, and in most cases, far more stability and better results. So given the TLC’s convergence of ideologies and operations, there is surely an argument for a similar arrangement.

The 3 or 4 respective leaders - I’m not sure how many the Greens do or do not have by this point - could form a sort of council to lead the coalition with the leader(s) of the largest party likely being the overall representative. By sharing resources, expertise, membership, MPs, Lords and many other features of the parties, the coalition would experience economies of scale making the overall operation far easier. They could choose a new name, they could just merge as one party or could stay a little bit more separated as 3 parties in a permanent coalition.

While this is all a wild idea of mine, one thing is for sure: it is make or break time for the TLC.