It is absolutely essential that the Lib Dems use this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to drive a change in the UKs hopeless electoral system. It is so poor it is almost impossible to interpret with any real confidence the results it delivers, as people vote for things they largely don't believe in. It is specifically designed to drive smaller parties out. What that means is that the frightened huddle of parties in the middle doesn't have the courage to publicly address hugely important but divisive issues : migration, desperate inequality, climate change (climate change addressed fully and properly, that is - not just tinkering with a runaway economic system).
It is the single most important contribution the Lib Dems could make to the political life of this country in the present moment. I believe it will do them no electoral harm, whereas failure to drive for this change and succumb to Conservative overtures stands to obliterate the Lib Dems for ever.
David Cameron must be given no opportunity to drive for a re-run election : only the Conservatives have the financial backing to withstand another campaign, and I'm sure they know it.
See http://bit.ly/aBSqrL
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