Simon and Hyman

As we used to say...

Anyway, whoever that stand-in for Olly Grender was on Newsnight was quite right: the likes of Peter Hyman can put around their fantasy about Simon Highes leading the secession of "a proper Liberal Party" opposed to the Coalition, but that is not going to happen. It was a very telling example of what can happen when someone from that party of government is allowed a proper media platform, as almost never happens, doubtless for that reason. In any case, Simon Hughes has work to do where he is.

And in any case, the Liberal Party still exists. As, on a much smaller scale (in Aberavon and in Bridlington), does the SDP. The Liberals, at least, are already very critical indeed of the Coalition. And both, strikingly, are very critical indeed of the EU, with the former Liberal Leader as a No2EU - Yes To Democracy candidate for Strasbourg, and with the SDP committed to repeal of the European Communities Act 1972.