I don't think so.
Secure in the knowledge that the Conservative Party's in-house newspapers would take up and run with any anti-Lib Dem story, the Left's in-house news bulletin has determined to remove the hated Nick Clegg now that there is no risk of Chris Huhne's elevation in his stead.
As much as anything else, the whole Rennard story demonstrates what a pantomime horse the Lib Dems are. That party's former Head of Media, Mark Littlewood, is once again being interviewed specifically as a Lib Dem while now the Director of the proto-Thatcherite Institute of Economic Affairs, which was founded out of the old Liberal Party that gave us its eventual heroine's ideologically formative father. Littlewood and the IEA now mostly campaign for the abolition of the national minimum wage, which even Tony Blair managed to introduce.
If it is not Littlewood, then it is Simon Hughes. Who, in a recent Newsnight interview to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Bermondsey by-election, described himself as, "like Peter, from the radical Left". Peter, being of course Tatchell of that ilk, did not question that, and recalled how in those days it had been only the radical Left that had advocated, for example, a national minimum wage. I am not sure that that is true. But it certainly stands in the starkest possible contrast to Littlewood.
The sheer instability of the Lib Dems has always been fatal. It looks as if we might at last be witnessing that fatality.
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