The fact is that whoever gets into power, none of them can say they received a sole mandate to run the country. Nobody alone will be able to do something which is supported by more people than oppose it.
The Lib Dems are doing something they have been itching to do for years, which is use a coalition to impose electoral reform (at the very least a referendum on reform). they can hardly be blamed ofr using their moment to get maximum benefit.
Similarly you can hardly blame Campbell and Mandelson for doing what they have always done and that is struggle to keep Labour in, no matter what. Campbell, in particular, does what his TV alter ego, Malcolm Tucker, did - which is bully, cajole, spin... whatever it takes to keep Labour in. They can hardly be blamed for that. The fact that the media lap up this kind of behaviour and encourage it (it was the media who made Nick Clegg look like a king-in-waiting pre-election, not the man himself).
OK, the tory press are *****ing and whining about the 'only elected candidate' and they kind of have a point but, tbh, poshboy and his Eton claque are so incompetent that they can't even snatch victory out of the hands of a thoroughly discreditted Labour government. A few months of minority government would see them booted out anyway once they got in and dropped all this touchy-feely, 'Hey I have a friend who's working class...or is it black?' BS that Cameron doles out.
So I reckon that the Lib Dems, being the only party that even partly gives a toss about civil liberties, are quite right to maximise their position and I hope they do get some kind of reform pushed thru, if only to mess up the tories, who I have always hated, and Labour, who I have come to hate.
