The Lib Dems always go on about being the "true opposition to Labour".
Just to jog your memories it was the Lib Dems tactical voting at constituency level and non aggression pact at leadership level that gave Labour the thumping majorities that they have enjoyed over the last few parliaments. The same majority which has let them push through some of the most illiberal legalisation in this country's history.
It seems that the Lib Dems have failed to learn the lessons of the recent past and could once again sell out their principles for a few seats at the top table.
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It does not seem long ago that you were criticising the same party for refusing to join a Welsh Nationist/Conservative government of Wales. The fact that they would prefer Westminster government to a shoddy alliance of conflicting views in Wales should not really be a surprise.
Given the positive outcome of having Lib Dems inside the Scottish Executive I think their inclusion in Westminster government would be of benefit to everybody in the country. Tony Blair had his major opponent in the cabinet, in the form of Brown, now Brown needs somebody who will dare to disagree with his totalitarian control over the party.
Imagine if he gave Ming the job of Foreign Secretary - what would that mean for Iraq? Or if he put the Lib Dems in charge of the Home Office (ID cards), Environment (nuclear policy), DTI (abolish themselves), education (end to tuition fees), or contitutional reform - ah, it begins to make sense now!
"Imagine if he gave Ming the job of Foreign Secretary"
He's a Liberal Democrat. So, therefore, inconsistency. Hypocracy. Policies from the back of a fag packet.
It all begins to make sense now...
I was wrong, it seems he was trying to do with Lord Pantsdown and Rabbi Neuberger what Cameron wanted from Greg Dyke.
It seems that there is a lot of talent in the Lib Dems that the two bigger parties wish they had. You can't blame them for trying!
It doesn't take much memory to recall the sleaze and hypocrisy under the last Conservative leadership...
...and why would the current leader who was an advisor to Norman Lamont in this period be trying to wash over this uncomfortable history (hmmm, Black Wednesday - what would £27bn of foreign reserves at 1992 prices be worth to the Bank of England today I wonder).
Just blame someone else for their own failure, of course - nothing to do with the fact of being proved wrong multiple times with ample public demostrations thereof...
The more relevant question is how long the conservatives can claim sole ownership of right-wing political opinion without splitting completely from public opinion.
From travels around the country the Conservatives are clearly not a unified group, let alone a national group, whereas the LibDems clearly are, whether you agree with them or not.
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