Time to pack your bags Nick!

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Northern England and especially your own constituency does n`t want the Lib-Dems any more, if you want to keep hold of your job you had better get your self down south and find a safe Tory seat! Mind, the Tories won`t have you, you`ve served your purpose to them, why would they embrace a loser?

Get into bed with dogs Nick, and you`ve got to expect to end up with fleas! :byebye :byebye

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Just seen an interview with a bloke who apparently is \"Nick Clegg's Political Adviser\".

Imagine admitting to being the person responsible for Clegg's political decisions!*

It'd be like openly admitting that you are Wayne Rooney's anger management adviser. Or Hitler's \"Jewish Relations\" adviser. Or Sean O'Driscoll's \"Voice Projection\" trainer.

Read earlier on a comment about why the Tories have done OK in the council elections (they are about 1% down on last year's election results) and the Lib Dems have collapsed (down about 10%) when it is TORY policies that are causing the pain. The guy said that it's because the Tories have stuck to the policies that they stood on last year, so the people who supported them then, will still support them now. The Lib Dems by contrast have torn up their manifesto, so people who supported them last year now feel betrayed. Bang on.

Looking very interesting come the next General Election mind. The SNP have demolished Labour in Scotland. But they won't get a YES vote in an independence referendum - the Scots are too canny for that. So, come the next GE, Scotland will still be part of the UK, but maybe with the SNP having 25-30 seats and holding the balance of power. I can easily see a situation next time round where the Tories are the biggest party in parliament, but without a majority. And Labour, Lib Dems and SNP between them would have a majority. What happens then?

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* - Mind, I've just thought on. This bloke will probably have a long and successful career in politics. Cameron's first job in politics was as Norman Lamont's political adviser after the 92 election. Within 6 months, we'd been booted out of the ERM after squandering something like 1% of the entire GDP of the country in one week on supporting the pound and putting up interest rates to 15% in an attempt to convince that markets that we could hold the line. It ended up doing nothing but making a fortune for currency speculators like Georg Soros who took over $1billion from the UK Govt in one week as a direct result of guessing correctly that Lamont didn't have a clue what he was doing.

Look at the embarrassed little lamb at the side of Lamont as he was admitting to the press that he (and the rest of us by default) had been taken to the cleaners by the currency speculators.

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This statement is so true from Ed Miliband

The Conservative party does not have a majority in parliament and has only been able to govern because of the Liberal Democrats' willing participation in a Tory-led government.

\"People who once voted Liberal Democrat have withdrawn permission for Nick Clegg to back Tory policies on the NHS, on living standards and cuts that go too far, too fast

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Yet intriguingly the Tory vote didn't faulter.  Lib Dems will be patient, when things are better in a few years time and more settled then they'll gain the benefit.

What I did find funny was the abandonment by students to labour due to the tuition fee rise.  Seems kind of ironic given that the study which brought about that rise was a labour study, they all would have done it given the chance, it was going to happen ages ago, we all knew that.