Damien

I did wonder how they would work come election time if the lib dems tried to attack a government they were a part of. Although Brown + Ming may have benefited from a Labour + Lib Dem team.

However it just comes across as bad for the Liberals Democrates to be honest. They could still attack the government on issues unrelated to ID cards and N.Ireland is pretty much safe enough to avoid a conflict with themselves.

Instead it just looks like they passed on a chance to actually do something simply so they could have a swipe at Labour. The Liberal Democrates seem to have a awful talent for reading the public mood as shown by their outing of Charles Kennedy which has really done serious damage to their image and to top it off they replace him with a dud.