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Editorial
Listening to Nick Clegg today in the Liberal Democrats press conference that he rules out a power share with Gordon Brown if the Labour party come third, surely must be one of the most stupidest tactical errors in recent times, by a party lest we forget, has not been involved in government since the 1970s, and even then had tragic consequences.
Clegg should not be ruling anything out, one poll has suggested, that despite the apparent rise in popularity for the Liberals, they stand to only win one or two new seats in Parliament, which still means that they will be the third party in British politics. With this logic, if you have not been involved in government for over thirty years, if you have a reasonable chance to govern with a party you have common beliefs with, ie Labour, then why trade insults and believe that your "15 minutes" of fame will be prolonged?
The Conservative party may still win an overall majority, which is what The London Daily News is predicting, and if this happens the Liberal Democrats will be an irrelevance again, and all of this froff in recent days that they are this new "reforming force" in British politics will be totally blown to smithereens, and they, the Liberals will be running to the doors of the Conservatives.
Electoral reform will be one of the most important pre-requisities for the Liberal Democrats to consider a power-share deal, but with gloomy economic figures daily, should not all all three parties be focused on how we fix our serious fiscal crisis? So Clegg get real, the third debate on the economy and with less than two weeks to the general election the British public will start to wise up and understand that the Liberals are not fit for power, or power sharing.
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