UK Election 8th of June

[RandBlade]

It's a shame the Liberals are dead, it would be good for the nation for Labour to die. A party on one side of the spectrum can only be replaced by another party on the same side of the spectrum, that's why no matter how bad the Tories did they would eventually have a comeback as the Lib Dems could never be a true centre-right party and UKIP were fruitcakes.

If the Lib Dems were still alive or if saner Labour MPs had the balls to leave Corbyn and set up SDP MkII then it could have been possible to displace Labour. Instead they'll get humiliated but like after 1983 they will recover eventually.

[Steely Glint]

It's a shame the Liberals are dead, it would be good for the nation for Labour to die. A party on one side of the spectrum can only be replaced by another party on the same side of the spectrum, that's why no matter how bad the Tories did they would eventually have a comeback as the Lib Dems could never be a true centre-right party and UKIP were fruitcakes.

If the Lib Dems were still alive or if saner Labour MPs had the balls to leave Corbyn and set up SDP MkII then it could have been possible to displace Labour. Instead they'll get humiliated but like after 1983 they will recover eventually.

The Lib Dems have no power base. The Tories have the rural middle class and bankers, Labour have the working class in the north and Londoners, the Lib Dems have... me and a few other people around the place? There's really no large block of core Lib Dem voters, and what there is too inefficiently distributed around the country to be effective. That is why without a) some pretty significant social and demographic changes and b) the end of first past the post, the Lib Dems will never be anything but a third party.