If Lib Dem strategists and
fellow europhiles are looking with dismay at the poll results, it is for a good reason: they have been unwilling or unable to make an argument for what they supposedly believe in.
On Monday,
Europhile Labour MP, Denis MacShane asked Gordon Brown in the House of Commons: «Does he share my dismay that when the issue [tough stance on Russia] was fought out at the Council of Europe the other week, the Russians» closest collaborators and
fellow travellers in the debate were UK delegates from the Conservative party?»