Why would you be a Lib Dem? That’s a rhetorical question, obviously, because I think we all know that the bulk of well-meaning, ineffectual perverts actually read the New Statesman. But still, imagine you were one. What’s it all for? And, more to the point, why are you still in government?
I keep asking this question of people cleverer than me, and they keep chuckling, as though I’m making a gag. But I’m serious. Why are the coalition’s junior partners still in there? Even the numbers of people prepared to have weird sex with them must be dropping on a daily basis. Why do they keep turning up for work?
Argument one: the Lib Dems are actually achieving plenty, just quietly.
Come off it. No they aren’t. There was the pupil premium, which I’ll have to Google one of these days, and I’m aware there has been some terribly significant wibbling with pensions.
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