[...] Update: Liberal Conspiracy reports on Mr Clegg and a new politics  [...]

Perhaps you should amend that to say, ‘not any position to push this through government in the current parliament’. After the general election, who knows where the balance of political partes and power will be?

Considering their spinelessness over the Lisbon Treaty, why are we meant to expect things to be different on electoral reform? Not much point if you don’t have sovereignty, is there?

A new political system? What, are MPs going to vote to get rid of themselves replacing Parliament with a collectivised organ of working class communal power?

Sadly I read Nick Clegg’s speech - and its clear he doesn’t want to distance himself from call me Dave.

He has addopted the same slightly “talk down to them” choppy sentences split by meaningless pauses style of delivery. And he said very little beyond niceties and bland comments.

So with that in mind if he manages to steal back some support from the tories - the tories might have to respond by taking up lib dem causes to take back the voters.