05-08-2015, 08:22 AM
(05-08-2015, 07:43 AM)S.J. Wrote: The thing is, the Tories basically gobbled up all Lib Dem voters with landslide victories.
Clegg sooking up to Cameron post-2010 election and not creating a coalition based on strong demands re: tuition fees etc... has fucked this country up for a decade. Â It's delegitimised the Lib Dem as the third party, allowing UKIP to take hold, and all the lib dem voters have gravitated towards Tory.
Whether they gravitated towards Tory because of "the nationalist invasion" I don't know. But I think the average english floating voter looked at Ed Milliband as PM and thought....nah.
Doesnt seem like Ed Balls is a popular guy either, going by the last hour or so.
The frightening thing is we have perhaps given the lib dems less credit than they deserve tbh. I think they have tempered the worst excesses of the tories, who may now have an unrestrained majority and will be really let loose. The narrative that the lib dems changed or added nothing in coalition meant that a tory vote wasn't so toxic for those who had voted lib dem, whereas they were perhaps thinking 'might as well vote tory, it's the same thing anyway.'