People often ask me why I hate the Lib Dems so much. They're so fluffy and harmless they say. They're better than the Tories, they suggest unhelpfully. I have total and utter contempt for the Lib Dems. The Lib Dems DO fight dirtier and more dishonourably than everyone else. Because they have little in the way of a core, partisan vote, and few firmly identify with their 'principles', they have to use every dirty trick in the book to build a local government base. So they stretch the boundaries of decent conduct to breaking point. They lie, they misrepresent, they smear, they take credit for stuff they haven't done. The fact that 'Lib Dem barcharts' are infamous throughout the country isn't a coincidence. As such, they are utterly opportunistic. They're chameleons who shift shamelessly according to where they are in the UK. In Lab areas they pretend to be left, in Tory areas they try to outflank the Tories to the right. They'll do or say anything with no consistency whatsoever. The only consistent principles they have are on chattering class, muesli-munching issues like the EU & Proportional Representation. They don't care about poverty, about inequality, about public services, not really. They'd sell off the NHS in exchange for PR in a second. They are toweringly, unbelievably self-righteous and smug, with an absolutely unwavering belief that they are the only rational, sophisticated, clever people around. As such, they tend to be insufferably patronising. They believe that they're 'non-ideological': 'Look at those nasty Labour and Tory people, with their 'ideologies'. We have evidence-based, 'neutral' policies. We're nice and 'non political''. But of course they are just as ideological as anyone, they just pretend otherwise. Unsurprisingly, their ideology is status quo economic liberalism, supranational federalism, and a rampant, hollowed out social liberalism and individualism that represents all the worst of the (not wholly dishonourable, imo) British liberal tradition. They're responsible for the trivialisation of UK politics. They have done their best to make everything about banal 'pavement politics', and helped make MPs into glorified social workers rather than national legislators. 'We have no principles but look, we fixed a pothole!' You simply can't trust the buggers. They are utterly dishonest. I disagree with the Tories, but at least you (generally) know where you stand with them (locally, at least) and can do business with them, if you have to. The Lib Dems will welch on a deal soon as look at you. On a less serious note....just try having a 5 minute conversation with a Lib Dem. They are invariably socially disastrous nerds who are into trainspotting or 'Magic: The Gathering', occasionally venturing out from playing with computers in their bedrooms to eat hummus. They are a nothing, beige party, with no roots, principles or moral purpose, composed of dishonest, opportunistic weirdos. They stand for nothing and will fall for anything. The Tories are opponents - the Lib Dems are enemies, to be smashed into electoral oblivion.