After
the treachery of 2010, where Clegg gleefully shafted several core Lib-Dem
demographics (anti-Tory tactical voters, students, social liberals, the anti-war
vote ...) in order to prop up David Cameron and a grotesque bunch of malicious
and incompetent Tory ministers, the idea of the only certainty in 2015 being a
return to government for Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats is an utterly
revolting one.
I'm pretty sure that the majority of people are hoping
that the Liberal Democrats get a hammering in the General Election, and that
Nick Clegg suffers what has become known as a "Portillo moment", by becoming the most
high profile political figure to lose their seat in the election.
In
order to prevent Nick Clegg from being the kingmaker who gets to pick who to
form a government with, the public need to use their heads and vote in
particular ways. People in Scotland and Sheffield have more power to damage
Clegg's kingmaker ambitions than the rest of us, but we can all chip in to make
sure Clegg doesn't get to decide whether to make kings of the red establishment
party or the blue one.
