Election would finish us, Nick Clegg tells Lib Dems
The Liberal Democrats would cease to exist as a party if they brought down the Coalition over Europe and triggered an early election, Nick Clegg warned his MPs last night.
The Deputy Prime Minister told a private meeting of more than 100 MPs and peers that he would not play “Russian roulette” with the Conservatives over David Cameron’s rejection of a new European treaty.
He said: “I don’t want to be the last leader of the Liberal Democrats by provoking a general election today.” His speech, which was applauded by the meeting, came as a poll put the Lib Dems on just 12 per cent, just ahead of the UK Independence Party.
You mean the LDs want new elections? Remember, part of the Tory-LD “Odd Couple” deal to form a coalition government was that Clegg wanted an iron clad agreement from CaMoron that there would be no national elections until May 2015, a full five years after the last election. That was because Clegg was worried about Cam calling for a quick new election cycle hoping that the Tories would gain an absolute majority, then Cam could tell Clegg and his LDs to go pound sand.
Funny how some people forget history, even recent history.
I hope that the next elections aren’t at least until 2014, because the BNP will anoint Nick Griffin’s successor in 2013. Hopefully it will be someone who is at least as good as or better than NickG in making forward progress.
