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They want to reintroduce sweeping surveillance legislation that was blocked by the Lib Dems in the previous government.

The DUP (0.6% of the popular vote) has the same 8 MPs as the Lib Dems (7.9%).

The lib dems lost 50 or so seats, a crushing defeat but a big loss was expected.

Then the Coalition got you tories if you'd voted lib dems, what is the point of voting LD then?

It could be the pivotal cause that sinks the Dems in 2016 and Paul's filibuster only bolsters his own campaign.

But had it passed, the Lib Dems could have been reaping the rewards for decades, since they'd almost certainly gain more seats.

For that matter, so have millions who supported the Lib Dems or the Greens.

Surveys are pretty crappy; high income dems tend not to respond; people lie; most publishers don't collect regdata; etc.

Edit: Apparently the Lib Dems are universally loved, and never did anything wrong.

I find it very sad this referendum was basically what the Lib Dems traded tuition fees for.

I think one of the reasons was tuition fees which the Lib Dems were very much against.

The Lib Dems didn't do the common sense thing: ditch their leader.

Long-term, no, but due to New Labour (1997-2010) being slightly right of centre, the Lib Dems were "left" in relation to that, yes, but not in relation to Labour's traditional position.

The AV system we voted on wasn't actually PR, any kind of PR got veto'd by the conservatives, and the Lib-Dems were perhaps foolish to try to continue with such a meagre reform, as it now gets used as an excuse to not implement PR in future as "the country voted against it" (except of course they didn't, as it wasn't one of the two options they were allowed to vote for).

Over the last 30 years the GOP has raised government spending far more than the Dems.

Now the people of the UK destroyed the Lib Dems, there's nobody to oppose this.

This was proposed many years ago but blocked by the Lib Dems.