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The Lib Dems had spent decades convincing people they were a serious option, saying "no we don't really want to be in government after all" would have seen them rightly dismissed as a joke.
It is utterly bizarre that voters abandoned the Lib Dems for compromising on some principles whilst rewarding parties that often times don't seem to have any.
As for the Lib Dems laugh away. Labour was written off until Tony Blair came along and remodelled the party so that it appealed to Tory voters. Had we been around in the 1990s and I'd written 'Tony Blair needs to move to the centre to attract Tory voters' you'd have said 'don't make me laugh' ... :-) The Lib Dems should look at Blair's New Labour.
Labour have gone left and the Tory's are being dragged right. Let's say your politics are in the centre - you like free enterprise, low tax, the EU but you value your public services like the NHS and you want a fair deal for the poor and disabled. You voted Tory as you liked David Cameron but as 2020 draws nearer you're unsure. Say Cameron wins the EU vote and leaves and Boris takes over. Boris will bash the EU, is for low tax and privatisation of the NHS .. he's a classic Tory.
And let's say you live in the SE of England and you own your own home and you want to pass it on to your kids - Labour want to hike inheritance tax. You also save through ISAs and so forth but are scared Labour will introduce new stealth taxes to fund their utopian dream - you think Labour are anti-aspiration and anti-middle-class. So who do you vote for?
I tell you with the right leader there's an opportunity for the Lib Dems .. the right leader may also be able to get some moderate Labour MPs to defect (before they're thrown out). If they could win 50 seats they could hold the balance of power. They need to drop Tim as leader though. If they were clever they'd get a woman to lead the party.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
If you hate the rich however, you get free steak and blowjobs all year round.
Adding these numbers doesn't tell you an awful lot other than that the Conservative vote is consistently higher than the lib dems or labour. You can slice it and dice it anyway you want but adding up all the losers and saying it's proof of anything is a waste of time. Psephology is an extremely complicated field and as has been mentioned many factors affect voting. Looking at those numbers I'd say the uk is very much a small-c conservative country...
Don't mention "collaboration" in this country either... that means working for the enemy. We are still a very divided country in many ways.
But we're also a slightly left-of-centre country on average. It's absolutely not true that the Tories have a natural majority - the problem has always been that the left and centre are divided, which under our electoral system usually allows the right to win.
One of the reasons the SNP has done so well in Scotland is because Labour has moved so far to the right that it has abandoned the left entirely to them.
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