Liberal Burblings

I have this ‘feeling’ that you are not going to be a happy camper in the future as your beloved but congenitally impotent and frankly ofttimes laughable ‘Party’ transforms itself into a ‘realistic’ alternative. I hope you ‘grow’ as time elapses, because as I said — History Is On The March, and you can either march in sync,(with variations of course) or fall and perish by the wayside. It’s all the same to History.

That you believe a complimentary grateful speech and upfront question answering from the sitting PM is somehow patronizing speaks volumes about the insularity and pettiness of your world view. I don’t think that Cameron will want to cause any ‘disruption’ at the Liberal(oops sorry LibDem) conference, but it’s YOUR loss, not his. I’ve tried to explain this political dynamic here previously with evidently limited success. But let’s try again just for giggles — and because I am clearly not alone in advancing this set of concepts. It’s becoming the NEW conventional wisdom; maybe because it’s CLEARLY true.

The LibDems have ‘burned the boats’ upon landing on the Coalition shore. Retreat is impossible without a complete rout, and the subsequent total collapse. There is ONLY forward or destruction. Cameron knows this, Clegg knows this, and evidently your Parliamentary caucus knows this at least according to a Guardian article I just read on high support for Cleggism within it. If Forward is all that remains, don’t you think it a good idea to meet the folks? They will be your political family for FIVE LONG YEARS. At least. And the smart money is on a much longer tactical/strategic relationship between the two parties. How can that be helped by head-in-sandism disease ?

And just a hint of how the ‘real world’ views the LibDems — You didn’t have ANY definition or dignity BEFORE this Coalition. So complaining about leaving you your dignity, is really a bit much. You were a grab bag for all the free floating ‘antis’, which is why your vote could never crack a certain barrier,and you were never taken seriously. NOW, since the Coalition, Labour might hate you(as opposed to merely disdaining you) but they at least are going to have to accept that they must now begin to respect you, and your new ‘allies’ on the ‘right’ are in fact respecting you more by the day. Respect is a GOOD thing.

I reference a Telegraph article for anecdotal but i think persuasive evidence of above assertion on the RESPECT Issue — http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/7854893/David-Camerons-good-fortune-was-not-to-have-won-the-election.html

Cameron is trying not to destroy you or subvert you, but rather to carve out the space for you to become the ‘progressive’ alternative to ‘conservative’ Conservatives. He wants you to have a shot a REPLACING Labour as the go-to
‘leftist’ party. How exactly is that insulting or patronizing ?
Are you not up to it ?

Absolutely right! Disastrous idea.

@dougf I’m sure you have excellent points to make but, if you’d like people to read them, you might find it helpful to keep them shorter than the original post. Also please stop using ‘inverted commas’ all the time because they just make you look rather ‘dim’.