Tiger By The Tail

There's a lot of chatter that Cameron will have to offer Clegg a few concessions to keep the coalition intact.

 

Why?

 

Where  have the Libdems to go if they leave the coalition except to an almost certain electoral disaster at the resultant general election?   When they went into government alongside the Conservatives they grabbed the tiger by the tail and now they can't let go lest they be eaten by the voters.   Their only hope is to hang on until the next election when, if the economy has recovered, they can claim a share of the priase that should come to a government that has sorted out Labour's disastrous management of the economy.

 

In the meantime they are stuck with following the Tories wherever they may lead them.

 

Rather than expecting more influence on government policy they will have to be satisfied with crumbs from the Tory table.

 

The Libdems did not win last year's election but finished third having lost a couple of seats.   they are very much the third party in UK politics and today should have been an overdue reminder of that hard fact.