The Lib Dem vote share predictions for Thursday are favourable,but like King Arthur, the Liberal beast will slumber waiting for the nation’s hour of needI sat opposite someone over dinner last week who offered me a wager that Nick Clegg would still become prime minister. It was an idea he embraced, or I rather agreed with him that Clegg would build an excellent one. I just find it tough to imagine the bundle of circumstances that would allow it to happen. I didn’t take the bet.
But I was fascinated by the conversation because it seemed to me to be the first hint of a phenomenon I had been expecting for some time: let’s call it coalition nostalgia. You may not have felt warmly towards them at the time. But,in retrospect, theres a sense among some voters, or I certainly share it,of a fond memory for those days when the government – even whether it wasn’t precisely on your side – included checks and balances, and a feeling that some of them were wrestling with the future in an clever way. When the inner workings of government were more obvious.
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Source: theguardian.com