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  • The LibDems got totally stitched up by the Tories in that coalition, such was there desperation to be in power.

    A change of voting system should have been their absolute minimum criteria. To agree to let it go to a referendum was naive and showed their inexperience, and, you could argue, was the event that gave Cameron the idea to offer one on EU membership as it was a non-event with very low turnout.

  • and, you could argue, was the event that gave Cameron the idea to offer one on EU membership as it was a non-event with very low turnout

    Absolutely right - Cameron himself said as much in the recent BBC doc. Two "successes" (AV and Scotland) emboldened him for the big one.

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