Will the Lib Dems Become the Stupid Party?

Frailty, thy name is coalition. Right? That still seems to be what many people think. Take Simon Heffer’s column today, for instance in which he concludes:

Whoever wins – and, at the hustings, the benign mood towards Miliband E is at the moment palpable, precisely because of his low profile during the Brown terror – it will signal a proper re-engagement of political battle, the end of the Government’s extended honeymoon, and the presentation of the first real challenges to the Coalition.

The planned constitutional reforms will be the stumbling block for the Government, and should be the new leader’s prime target, even more than the economic strictures. After all, there should be no getting away from the fact that those strictures are Labour’s fault. Peers tell me that some of the constitutional plans – including the referendum on the alternative vote – will not get through their House. That would be difficult enough.