Why vote Lib Dem? Even Nick Clegg is now asking that question. After 8 months of broken
pledges, deep cuts and atrocious polling (due to reach its nadir tomorrow in Oldham East and Saddleworth), Clegg worries that his party is losing its identity. Speaking to the Guardian, Clegg reveals that he hopes to arrest decline by expressing publicly his private
differences with David Cameron.
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This is not defiance from Clegg but a statement of positive intent. Taking brave decisions, he says, has proved that the Liberal Democrats can govern and that coalition works; the government’s strength is sufficient to withstand disagreement. That’s all very well, but Clegg needs more than mere differences: all politicians have their differences. Rather, Clegg needs to mark clear distinctions between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, and to do that he needs David Cameron’s complicity.
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