Lib Dems, paralysed by the shock of successive
local elections disasters, have realised they have no other choice but to cling on until 2015.
Parties can recover quite happily from
local election disasters as Labour is now demonstrating after its catastrophic demolition in 2009.
Not exact matches
The Liberal Democrat leader was on the brink of an expected
disaster in
local and European
elections the following month — the voters» roar of disapproval at his decision to go into coalition with the Conservatives.
A month ago, Labour had one of its worst ever performances in the
local elections, pointing to
disaster for Corbyn in Thursday's general
election.
In summary, the
local election performance from Labour this year is not the unprecedented
disaster Corbyn's opponents have claimed — others have done worse — but neither is it in any way positive news.
That Corbyn will fall in the next six months, or at the latest, after poll
disaster in next year's regional and
local elections.