Did you see Vince Cable interviewed on television last night about his new appointment?<\/p>\n
The deft, witty, always in command Vince looked like a man putting on a very brave act.<\/p>\n
He stumbled for words. His posture was resigned.<\/p>\n
Of course we now know he’d been appointed to be responsible for banking \u2014 to find George Osborne would not be letting him do the job.<\/p>\n
If Vince was ever convinced of the merits of being a ConDem it was already clear he knew he’d been shafted.<\/p>\n
He’s just the first to come to that realisation \u2014 and that there’s no way out for his party.<\/p>\n
There will be a bloodbath soon. There is just no way most Lib Dems will pout up with this: they’ve been sold out by Clegg, Laws and the other free-market fundamentalists in their ranks.<\/p>\n
I predict a split soon.<\/p>\n
We got so close to PR. And now, maybe, two party politics might be restored. I do at least hope Vince has the courage to take his people back into a genuine third party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"