Go down on the Establishment, whichever way that swings?
Yeah, that's usually what centrists do...
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I'm actually surprised that they didn't make more headway as the only resolutely anti-Brexit major(ish) party. That should have given them some kind of vote share, but somehow they managed to stuff that up, too.
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I think all the parties that talk the loudest about political expediency, such as your Lib Dems, are the ones that have no idea how that works.
As shown by their willingness to discuss a concept like "political expediency", thinking it doesn't lose them voters by the 10000s.
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Literally telling people that tell them whatever will make them vote for you is bad politics, IMHO.
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Ah...
Literally telling people that you will tell them whatever will make them vote for you is bad politics, IMHO.
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Well, yeah.
The good liars don't tell you they're liars.
It sometimes takes an idiot to trust a liar, but it takes a real moron to trust someone who openly admits to being full of shit.
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It always sounds like some kind of attempt at spin, but I *genuinely* don't know what the point of the Lib Dems actually is. Unless they are literally the party of keeping everything pretty much the same for most people... maybe that really is their thing.
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My understanding of the UK is there's a widespread trust in institutions and governance that has only recently started to erode in a big way.
If I'm right, it's pretty easy to fit the platform "we just do the stuff you expect," into that political climate.
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Then there is the secondary point: not every political party exists to take power, per se.
There are other things that can be gained even as a minority, so long as you're not in a one- or two-party system.
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Then there's a tertiary point: the conservatives enact neolib economics, but the rest of their platform is, well, conservative.
Some people like to pretend they're better than that, even if they're not.
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That's a tricky one; I suspect a huge proportion of their support base do go along with some of the central concepts - for example, spending money carefully. Maybe not that party itself, but the average Tory voter thinks that they'll get better value from their taxes.
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My impression of the average Conservative voter is that they expect people who are able to work, but are happy for taxes to support people who genuinely can't (eg with serious disabilities). Somehow, the party gets away with ideological cruelty to those in need, though.