BBC News: Reports on the statement by the former leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy that he didn't vote for the coalition deal with the Conservative Party. It must be hard for the former leaders of the Lib Dems to see their successor in power, Nick Clegg is now Deputy Prime Minister and overall there are twenty Lib Dems MP’s in the Government. This is the first time since the 1920s that the Lib Dems have been in coalition power, then it was a Liberal PM but with a Conservative Majority of MP’s. This is the chance for Liberals to get some of their Agenda in to law, if they fail then the Party is a busted flush. The former leaders would not be human if they didn’t feel at some level a sense of envy at the raise of Nick Clegg, but they had their chance for power and didn’t work, thus Clegg has to make it work or the Lib Dems will split over the five years. That is not say that the coalition government will work, but its new, it’s the new politics, the past is the past it’s the future that concerns the UK voter.
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