Mr Jinx
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Not far fetched at all.
In all the rage, mine included, about Corbyn and his appalling clique, little attention has been focused on the dire state of the Liberal Democrats. The relatively stable, politically consistent party of Paddy Ashdown in 1997, which opposed the war and gained in strength then indulged in a well meaning but disastrous coalition with the Conservatives, who repaid their support by having them for breakfast. An intelligent, able leader was replaced by the out of his depth Farron and the totally out of her depth Swinson. Policy making and political direction veered all over the place, in an unthinking knee jerk search for votes which ended in disaster. The party is utterly washed out and directionless. Nevertheless it does retain a membership and activist base, most of whom are comfortably left of centre, much as Ashdown was quietly to the left of Blair. And most of the few Lib Dem MPs are thoroughly reasonable people
The fact that the LibDems are considering making their newest MP, Daisy Cooper, the Leader of the party tells us all we need to know. Things are very bad for Labour but they're arguably worse for the LibDems.