You may not have read Walter Bagehot but Alf Filer has and he’s cheesed off.

Whilst not promoting parliamentary bourgeois democracy as the saviour of working people from capitalism, it is worth noting that at this early stage, having fooled their way into office, the Lib Dems are quick to go back to the old ways.

If anyone saw Jeremy Paxman last night on Newsnight, he was quick to expose the hypocrisy of the Lib non dems for wanting taxpayers’ money to pay for their research needs, even though they have access to civil service advice as Ministers! So much for cleaning up Parliament.

In the meantime, not to be outdone, Cameron is busy taking away the independence of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, to minimise any cracks emerging in the Conservative Party, by appointing front bench members to their leadership positions.

Now as anyone who has read the classical constitutional voice of authority,Walter Bagehot, will know this is just another nail in the coffin for Parliamentary democracy, strengthening the hand of the Executive over M.Ps.

Far from being a supporter of Bill Cash MP, I must share with him my concerns about the insecurity that Cameron is feeling over the coalition. In the meantime, David Davies MP is busily campaigning against the need for a 55% majority needed prior to a motion of no confidence in the Government being voted on.

A new approach to democracy is not what the Con Dems offer. It is another stitch up attempt by the Establishment to give legitimacy to a rotten deal and a rotten set of policies.

In the mean time, Cameron and Clegg offer us an opportunity to tear up legislation. How about a repeal of the anti-trade union legislation which has been used to prevent BA cabin crew going on strike? What about reversing the right to secondary picketing to enable workers to show real solidarity with each other in protecting jobs and public services?

The Tory/ Lib stitch up fools no-one, not even their own supporters. The difference is many of us never really believed power lay in Parliament in the first place but in the City, the banks, the military and international financial centres to defend profit and property.

Shoring up the vestiges of power and office in Government may ensure a majority in Parliament for the anti-working class programme of this coalition but it will not stop campaigns in the unions and on the streets by working people.

PR may sound good, Parliamentary reform may improve the charade that is taking place, yet the real debates are taking place elsewhere amongst working people worried about their future. We need to ask ourselves once again whose democracy and what type of democracy best serves working people and their needs. It certainly is not this farce that is taking place unfolding in front of our eyes.

Hopefully John McDonnell will ensure a real challenge emerges in the Labour Party, reflecting a real alternative, linking the struggles and supporting a real defence of working people both inside and outside the Labour Party.