Paddy Ashdown urges Lib Dems to not let power be a 'blip'
Mr Ashdown, heading the party's election strategy, told the Brighton spring conference he wanted being in government to "become a habit" and not be a "blip".
Earlier, Business Secretary Vince Cable warned industry would suffer if areas like health were spared spending cuts.
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Mr Cable also repeated his calls for more capital spending and called for pensioners' benefits to be means tested or taxed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21724754
Cable can go procreate - pensioners are taxed same as everyone else. Some benefits such as attendance allowance are paid tax free.
I'll assume for now Ashdown either had his "Paddy sings the Harry Warren Songbook" on his mind or he's 42nd Street fan.
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giving unquestioning support to the policies of a Tory government. There's little if anything done by Cameron and Co. that is LibDem in any sense at all.
Clegg COULD have moved his party past Labour, could have made it the new party of the center-left in the UK...but he let that chance, the greatest chance for political realignment in Britain since the 1920's, slip away out of an obsession with maintaining "equidistance" for the LibDems BETWEEN the Tories and Labour(even between the Tories and what is still more or less "New Labour"
at all cost.
His party is now nothing more than THIS year's "National Liberals".
