From John Haris in the Guardian, yesterday:
Every lurch to the free-market right shreds the idea that the Lib Dems are there to pull the Tories back to the centre. With Lib Dem backbench MPs and such grandees as Shirley Williams, I keep having the same conversation. They say they oppose some policies, but are heartened by others, and all is just about OK. In response, the old hippie phrase comes to mind: you are either on the bus, or off the bus.
He's right.
Get off the bus now.
Or pay the consequences.
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The only hope for the LibDems is to cobble together a new coalition with Labour (which I am sure they are busy trying at this very moment). They can’t precipitate a general election because they’d get slaughtered. The problem is that the numbers no more add up now than they did at the last election. But if it goes on much longer the LibDems will bear the brunt of the anger of the British public for decades to come for complicity in the ruination the NHS and much much more.
I agree that the only hope for LD MPs is to cross the floor of the house … and if it precipitated a GE they might perform better than their present10%.
The problem is that the orange bookers are unlikely to defect because the Conservative party is their natural economic home. The Conservatives would probably retain sufficient to remain in power.
My other hope is that there is sufficient anger in the Conservative party at the sheer incompetence of this government and fear at the contraction of the economy resulting from Osborne’s policies, that they will precipitate a decapitation. It is a faint hope but there is certainly anger amongst Conservative Councillors and fear of the forthcoming local elections.