A comment on Charlotte Gore’s blog…

With the inestimable zeal of a woman scorned, Charlotte Gore is now writing interesting stuff about the Lib Dems. No, really. It can be done. Truly!

Right now, she is writing posts that are broadly pro-Lib Dem but her general scepticism of both the party structure and it’s operation and policy make this particularly noteworthy. It’s like when you’ve split up with a girl/boy and  then see them again and they look quite good but you then remember all the shite they put you through. I recognise it well because that is exactly how I feel about the Tories post 1995.

I, more than the Lab-Con party hacks, would actually like to see the Liberal Democrats restore their position as the Whig opposition to the Tories which served the UK so well since the 18th Century until Labour rudely interrupted it.

I dream of waking on May 7th to find that the BNP taking 5% of votes from their erstwhile lefty colleagues Labour, in their Northern heartlands where there is still such a thing as the white working class, causes them to haemorrhage seats to the Libs or Tories. To discover that the SNP have wiped them out in Scotland and with the few seats they cling on to, they total 100 or so in the new Parliament.

I really do.

I would truly love a Lib Dem ‘victory’ in this respect. Sandal wearing beardies with an unhealthy interest in the mathematics of ATV don’t scare me! At least, not as much as ex-sandal wearing ex-beardies with an axes to grind, as found in Labour!

But this probably won’t happen. Remember the phenomenal polling of the Alliance? Go to your constituencies and prepare for government? No? Look it up.

I think the best that can come from this election is either a government, or shambolic coalition, that highlights how fundamentally undemocratic our voting system is. Or one that sees turnout dip below 50%, achieving the same goal.

Only then will the arguments for change become irresistible.

And if the Cleggster can play a part in that, the more the better, I say!