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Originally Posted by rjt
I hope this is further sign that the Lib Dems are imploding and I could not be happier about it.
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Me too. If the europhile Lib Dims implode it would be the best development in British politics for a very long time indeed.
Both Clegg and Huhne are committed europhiles (although they are trying to keep quiet about that at the moment). Both have worked in Brussels or sat in the EU 'Parliament' and both represent constituencies which were natural Conservative seats during the period of Lady Thatcher.
If the Conservatives do well at the next General Election, Huhne (majority at Eastleigh just over 500 votes) could (hopefully) be kicked out and Clegg (whose seat is the traditionally Conservative Sheffied-Hallam) would be struggling (if he does become Lib Dim Party leader) to run both a national campaign and to hold his own seat (at the next General Election) amidst a Conservative revival.
UKIP could help defeat this unpleasant pair in their constituencies at the next General Election by targeting Liberal 'Democrat' voters in those seats and warning them them that that party is dangerously pro-EU; wants to destroy our ancient Pound and wishes to see the UK dissolved into an EU Superstate.
If UKIP could help 'drain' the Lib Dims of enough votes in the constituencies of Clegg and Huhne - both would lose at the next General Election and the pro-EU Dim Libs would be back where they started - having yet another leadership election (which would be the third since Kennedy was forced out).