Cameron to right of them,
Milliband to left of them,
Voters in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd
Storm'd at with hue and cry
Boldly they rode
Into the jaws of Death
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the Lib Dem EUphiles
With apologies to Alfred Tennyson...
The boy Clegg announced the suicide of his party today, struggling against the rise of Ukip and the voters growing distaste and hatred of the EU Clegg firmly nailed his parties colours to the mast in supporting the EU and gaining his pension for the year from them.
BBC.
Clegg however refuses to do this, he somehow believes that there may be support for the EU in the coming EU elections and that the Lib Dems can tap into it. The fact that he has to big up the EU as part of his pension deal is of course not mentioned by the BBC.
Mind you, bucking national trends is second nature for the Lib Dems, it's part of their mythos of always being the party of choice in protest vote politics, although they've discovered the price of power now in that sooner or later everyone despises you.
So perhaps all this is a cunning plan to send the Lib Dems permanently into protest vote obscurity?
Wouldn't put it past them...
BBC.
Nick Clegg has used his new year's message to tell voters the Liberal Democrats are "Britain's party of in" when it comes to the European Union.As this blog has said many times, Cameron and Milliband do not want to take us out of the EU, despite the wishes of many in their parties, what they are aware of though is the growing threat of a party who are determined to take us out and who are taking votes from their core support, both left and right. This means that they are having to go against their base instincts and at least court the anti-EU wings of their parties in order to shore up their support.
The Lib Dem leader said other parties would put "narrow political interest" ahead of the UK economy.
Mr Clegg said UKIP "want out" of the EU, the Conservatives were "flirting with exit" and Labour "don't have the courage of their convictions on this"
Clegg however refuses to do this, he somehow believes that there may be support for the EU in the coming EU elections and that the Lib Dems can tap into it. The fact that he has to big up the EU as part of his pension deal is of course not mentioned by the BBC.
Mind you, bucking national trends is second nature for the Lib Dems, it's part of their mythos of always being the party of choice in protest vote politics, although they've discovered the price of power now in that sooner or later everyone despises you.
So perhaps all this is a cunning plan to send the Lib Dems permanently into protest vote obscurity?
Wouldn't put it past them...