11th May 2010 I don t think there is any such thing as progressism What is progress anyway The Libdems have a rag bag of inconsistent beliefs and principles borrowed from the right and left none of which make any sense together Their party is full of miscellaneous odd bods They claim to be interested in civil liberties but ignore the mojor threat to these presented by EU legislation such as the Stockholm Programme Their leader Nick Clegg is an out and out crook He ranks with Berlusconi for the nasty dirty ways he sneaked into power I attempted to re edit this article and make it less adulatory but as people warned me always happens on Wikipedia the Wiki police immediately expunged every new fact I added Clegg accepted 3 5 million in illegal donations to his party to fight this election When confronted with the facts even on prime time television he did not dare to deny them but brazenly went on insisting that other parties were more guilty It is a scandal that Britain s electoral commission has not prosecuted him THOSE FACTS SHOULD BE IN ANY OBJECTIVE NEUTRAL ARTICLE ABOUT HIM He did also change his stance on most policeis even whether to have a nuclear weapon When elected leader he said he would keep it After about eighteen months he changed his mind Then he decided to say he would keep it for the time being a policy designed to attract voters from all sides I call that vacillation The Financial Times published a critique of Clegg s manifesto saying that it had a black hole in its financial calculations He was making offers he can not finance Finally how can this article say the Lib Dems have a deep commitment to constitutional reform when they have sold out on it at the first opportunity When they were a small party they used to advocate proportional representation When they got bigger they started to advocate PR only for parties with a minimum of 5 or 10 or 15 of the votes It got bigger all the time Now at the first chance of making a deal with the Conservative party they have ditched the whole idea of PR and have accepted merely a referendum on the AV system of voting AV is not PR I don t call that a deep commitment I call it unprincipled behaviour motivated by sheer opportunism at every point