Yes, but what does Chris Hitchens think of the Cleggosaurus Rex?

They just need a much larger popular-vote plurality than Labour and the Tories do to get a Commons majority. Something like 45%, where Labour won a majority with only 35% of the popular vote in 2005.

Katrina presents Clegg as if he was anti establishment. But the Lib Dems have for years been one of the 3 main parties, often finishing above the others in smaller elections, and they were JUST as affected by the MP's expenses scandal as the other 2 parties, with many of their members being forced to resign as well.

And they have some disturbing non progressive views as well. For example when Salman Rushdie was getting a knighthood, and religious fanatics were demanding that the British withdraw this knighthood, as he had commited "blasphemy" the general consensus among the political class in Britain was that it is entirely up to the British government who they do or do not give knightoods to.
The Liberal Democrats on the other hand took the position that since Salman had "offended" people of religion, by exercising his right to write novels, his knighthood should be withdrawn.

Ultimately the Liberal Democrats are, like the opposition an right wing authoritarian party. I think the Liberal Democrats are distinct in that, unlike the other parties they do actually "believe" in something, whereas, Labour and the Conservatives have become little more than market researchers, finding out what people want and then trying to sell your own ideas back to you, as opposed to trying to sell ideas they truly believe in. Unfortunately I think the Lib Dem's will actually fall foul of this, unilateral disarmament was a policy that scuppered Labour's election prospects for years, and the Liberal democrats idea of an amnesty on illegal immigrants seems quite unpopular too. Their calls for electoral reform are positive on one hand, but on the other... which of the main three parties would gain most from them... Lib Dem's of course.

I do not think they are trying to reform the establishment as much as muscle in on it and become part of it. They will be the real winners of this election no matter what, they have for the first time been viewed on an equal footing with the other two parties and have finally shed the myth that a vote for Liberal democrats is a wasted vote.

One of the most obvious demagogues of modern times; at least with Obama, even when we knew he was lying to us, there were core values that could give us a clue as to where he stood on issues. But with Clegg, he just seems willing to say anything to get elected; he seems to be the most cynical of politicians in a very cynical time.

Please. Clegg and the LIberal Dems are about as "anti-political" as the Democratic Party is in the U.S. (or GOP, for that matter). They're entirely political, period. Their positions, so far as I can tell, are slightly to the left of Labour's. As for how well all those new taxes will work out for the British economy, see "1970s, The." Margaret Thatcher didn't happen in a vacuum, after all.

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A few decades ago we had a young politician named Pierre Trudeau, who captured the Canadian imagination in what was called Trudeaumania and swept his party into office for consecutive terms.
Is the growing Cleggmania the same? Probably.
But the Prime Minister in waiting must wear a flower of some kind on his lapel and be seen wearing sandals in public if he wants to capture the hearts of the electorate with his personal style as well as his intelligence.
Let it be so.
RUDY HAUGENEDER
VICTORIA, BC, CANADA