7、Lib Dem supporters are overwhelmingly in favour of av, Labour ones prefer it slightly, and Tory backers are broadly against it.
11、Several judges are in favour of more legal rights for partners who live together, and Lib Dem peer Lord Marks has launched a Bill to bring in a law for cohabitees.
15、Nothing else is as sensitive as health policy, and the Lib Dems have been supportive elsewhere.
19、The Lib Dems’ job for most of the time between elections is simply to stay in the game.
23、But, the Clegg camp responds, the Tories were wiped out in the big northern cities years ago, leaving only the Lib Dems for government-haters to kick.
27、Some Lib Dems, and indeed some Tories, believe that the most likely result in 2015 is a repeat of 2010: a hung Parliament in which the Tories are the biggest party.
1、I voted Lib Dem.
5、Some Lib Dem suffering is painfully ironic: they are attacked now as unprincipled rogues saying anything to get ahead.
10、But AV was all that Labour or the Tories would accept by way of electoral reform and at least offered the promise of extra Lib Dem seats.
16、Ever since, the Lib Dems have felt little loyalty to their ruthless partners.
21、Yet, he adds, it will have big consequences if the Lib Dems develop a taste for playing the "nice" party in the coalition.
26、Most in Labour and the Lib Dems, along with a minority of Tories, might then look to statutory regulation of the press-a prospect even less acceptable to the newspapers than the royal charter.
2、This is not the proportional representation of Lib Dem dreams.
8、Lib Dem ministers rage about the "calculating" and "ruthless" Tories, who in turn resent the sops required to soothe the other side.
14、The Lib Dems have less of this conservative culture.
22、But Tories and Lib Dems differ widely on how much for-profit innovation they will tolerate, and how much private firms should be encouraged to challenge state providers.
29、Lib Dems were appalled by Mr Boles's offer, however kindly meant: the party is so frightened of losing its independence under Mr Clegg that such a pact would "kill" him, says a senior member.
6、When a parliamentary vote on the measures arrives, a Lib Dem spokesman (presumably Mr Huhne) will be allowed to speak against nuclear energy, but his fellow Lib Dem MPs may abstain from voting.
17、What Lib Dems really want is a system that would give them seats in proportion to their votes.
25、Call an election immediately, cry the opposition Tories, who are ahead in the polls, and the Lib Dems, who aren't, but are scoring better than they usually do.
4、But he knows that many Lib Dem activists are instinctively opposed to collaboration with the Tories.
18、After backing it, the Lib Dems turned against it when unease among voters and clinicians grew earlier this year.
30、With others hoping to be sent to the House of Lords, there is pressure to ditch a coalition pledge to Lib Dems to create a mostly elected upper house.
13、The very word has an unhappy ring in Britain: just now, lots of Lib Dem voters feel compromised by coalition with the Tories, and not in a good way.
3、Lots of erstwhile Lib Dem voters are "not very rational", regrets a senior MP.
24、Under pr, most parliaments would probably be hung, and Lib Dems could dream of playing a pivotal role in endless coalitions.
20、The trouble is that, although the Conservatives are in favour, the Lib Dems have traditionally been hostile to nuclear power.
28、The Lib Dems plan to insulate every home in the country and want to reform the market so that the profits of energy retailers do not depend on selling as much power as possible.
12、The next day Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem deputy prime minister, said that the government was as determined to improve social mobility as it was to fix the deficit.
9、There have been grim by-election results, including a jaw-dropping sixth place in Barnsley Central (where the Lib Dem candidate was spat at in the street).
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