The Smashing Orangey Bit In The Middle
At time of writing the Liberal Democrats are gathering in Glasgow for their last conference before the 2015 election. Conventional wisdom amongst the political commentators and pollsters is that they are looking at an election where they are likely to lose about half their seats. Even that isn’t as bad as it could have been. Had the proportional representation measure they proposed early in the parliament gone through they would have struggled to get anyone back to Westminster.