27th December 2007Over the past 35 years the Lib Dems have claimed to pursue a policy of equidistance between the two main parties. There were good reasons for doing so, of course, but it did not entirely ring true. Jeremy Thorpe refused to join a Tory Coalition in 1974, but David Steel was prepared to make a pact with Callaghan's Labour Government. In more recent times, Paddy Ashdown tried very hard to court a coalition with Blair ( and would have succeeded had his party not set their sights too low in the 1997 Election). Ideologically, Charles Kennedy and Ming Campbell were always much closer to Labour than the Tories.
But what of Nick Clegg? It is far from clear that in the right electoral circumstances he would not play with the Tories.
At the next Election a Vote for the Liberal Democrats may well be a vote for a Cameron Government. 24 June 2007 Labour ahead in latest poll
The MORI poll puts Labour on 39% ( Up 4%) the Tories on 36% ( down 1%) and the Liberal Democrats on 15% (down 5%). The most significant movement is from Liberal Democrat to Labour.
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