Originally Posted by Britannist

The Liberal Dims are bunch of EU-fanatical socialists to the left of many in the Labour Party. If the pro-EU wing of the Conservatives (a minority) tried to do a deal with the Dim Liberals it would cause huge tensions inside the Conservative Party and would almost certainly lead to large-scale defections to UKIP.

Apart from this, I know that nearly everyone in the Conservative Party rightly view the pro-EU and opportunistic Liberal Dims with total contempt - as do the majority in other parties in the House of Commons.

The rank-and-file membership of the Liberal Dim Party hate the Conservative Party because it is anti-proportional voting and because its membership (i.e. the membership of the Conservative Party) is mostly pro-sovereignty.

It would be better for the Conservative Party if it avoided a coalition with the LIberal Dims - let them go and try to prop up a minority Labour Government and see how far they get. A 'Lib/Lab Pact' - as we saw in the late 1970's - would 'end in tears' for both of those parties as they drag each other down (just as they did during the Labour Callaghan Government thankfully removed by Mrs. Thatcher in 1979).