[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Livia

It smacks of desperation to me. "Vote LibDem and we'll give you money". If Nick Clegg removed himself from the coalition - and bear in mind he's Deputy Prime Minister right now, the second most powerful man in government - all he will be is leader of the party who came third in the general election. His party is falling apart as the local election results in May showed. If he wanted really to make us take him seriously, he should perhaps take up the cause of fuel duty or immigration, something that means something to people, instead of this pie-in-the-sky silliness.

Hi Joey, hope you're well.

I am well thank you Livia and I hope all is good with you too, I totally agree (again) with your post above, as I said earlier I cannot see the Conservative MPs backing him on this but somehow I have in the back of my mind that as this Govt gets nearer to the next election, that the Lib Dems will start making overtures against the Conservatives and at least appear to be siding more with the opposition.

Hey, any party that can stab its own voters in the back will have no qualms at ditching a coalition partner, I believe however the damage is done to the Lib Dems now, they have no way back while Clegg is leader and I still think really that this idea of shares for the voters is a non-starter.

I know they are passing new powers that stop the PM of the day calling an election but it's not passed yet,(I think the Lords have objections to it too), I would hope David Cameron still may if he saw a chance to, if his private polling showed an upturn in his own party's fortunes in the polls, get another election fought while he still can call one and then get his overall majority. With the Lib Dems still so weak, not many seats for the Tories will be lost down South and they are likely to gain a fair few too.

Whatever the result of the next election, the Lib Dems will reap what they've sown and be reduced to a rump in Westminster.