Thing is their vote has been squeezed both ways

It's much harder for them to "triangulate", to borrow Blair's phrase: appear left-wing in Labour areas and right-wing in Tory ones. It's also harder for them to be a credible party of protest/target for tactical votes. So you're left with Lib Dem True Believers, of whom there aren't that many; the others break left or right. Plus the Greens and UKIPs are picking up the kind of young protest voters the Lib Dems used to hoover up.

Interesting call for them on whether they should join a new gummint or not. If they do they have to build up from a very low base. If they don't then what is the point of them - the term "radical liberal" doesn't have quite the currency it did a hundred years ago.

Posted By: Old Man on May 8th 2015 at 01:39:48

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Fuck my old boots, the Lib Dems are being flayed alive so far *boggle* (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, May 8, 01:31:36
- Thing is their vote has been squeezed both ways (General Chat) - Old Man, May 8, 01:39:48
- "hugged to death by the Tories" (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, May 8, 01:36:00
  - Thought everyone knew this was going to happen? (n/m) (General Chat) - Brandonio, May 8, 01:41:24
    - I do recall there was some speculation at the time (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, May 8, 01:46:19
      - they were too weak (General Chat) - phrankin, May 8, 01:47:59
  - But if that were true all their votes would be going to Labour (General Chat) - Old Git, May 8, 01:41:09
    - Not necessarily (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, May 8, 01:45:47
- Same thing happened to the centrist party in Merkel's government (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, May 8, 01:33:02

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