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Britannist · 10-10-2007, 06:12 PM

The europhile Liberal Dims are lucky that Gordon Brown did not call a General Election for next month and now have the time to replace their "pointless" leader Sir Menzies Campbell, writes eurosceptic Simon Heffer in today's Telegraph (brief edited extract):

"All the excitement about an election distracted attention from the dismal standing of the Liberal Democrats in the latest poll: at 11%, they could have lost two thirds of their seats in a poll. They are the real, indeed probably the only, beneficiaries of Mr Brown's bottling out.

They now have plenty of time to abandon the pointless Sir Menzies Campbell, replace him with.....Nick Clegg. Would it be a real surprise, sometime in 2009, to be surveying the Miliband-Clegg coalition, with the present Prime Minister....with plenty of time to chew over in his mind the real legacy of his failure of nerve last Saturday...?"

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Britannist Uber Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: London Posts: 22,896	Liberal Dims lucky to avoid November election in which they lost many seats The europhile Liberal Dims are lucky that Gordon Brown did not call a General Election for next month and now have the time to replace their "pointless" leader Sir Menzies Campbell, writes eurosceptic Simon Heffer in today's Telegraph (brief edited extract): "All the excitement about an election distracted attention from the dismal standing of the Liberal Democrats in the latest poll: at 11%, they could have lost two thirds of their seats in a poll. They are the real, indeed probably the only, beneficiaries of Mr Brown's bottling out. They now have plenty of time to abandon the pointless Sir Menzies Campbell, replace him with.....Nick Clegg. Would it be a real surprise, sometime in 2009, to be surveying the Miliband-Clegg coalition, with the present Prime Minister....with plenty of time to chew over in his mind the real legacy of his failure of nerve last Saturday...?"