Greedy Tories

Liberal Democrat fury at the behaviour of the prime minister is all over this morning’s papers. They are not just blustering because they lost the referendum – although, obviously, there is an element of that. They are also genuinely outraged that Cameron used the fact that Clegg compromised to form the coalition that put Cameron in Downing Street as a weapon against Clegg personally and the likelihood of more coalitions if the alternative vote won. One anonymous Lib Dem puts it like this to my colleague Andrew Rawnsley:

“For the Conservatives, having asked us to make these compromises, then to attack us for making compromises, is breathtakingly hypocritical. There’s bound to be payback. Some of it in unpredictable ways. David Cameron has made a big, big mistake. The coalition is going to be much less trusting. We’re no longer doing business with someone whom we think is honest and decent.