>>>>I don’t know enough about UK politics but isn’t a Lib Dem-Tory coalition as weird a mix as possibly could be imagined?
Actually, the Liberal Democrats consider themselves to be the ideological heirs of the Whigs and other classical liberals. They come from the same Liberal intellectual tradition as America’s Founding Fathers, who were Whigs in Colonial America, and from the tradition that produced Edmund Burke and John Stewart Mill in Britain. Unlike the Labor Party, the Liberal Democrats do not consider themselves to be part of the socialist intellectual tradition.
It is true that all 3 major parties in Britain, the Tories, Labor, and Lib-Dems, have moved to the left in recent years. But on economic issues, Lib-Dems are closer to the Tories than they are to Labor. But the Lib Dems are left-wing on social issues.
Ah Thank you for the enlightenment. Makes much more sense now
Today’s lib-Dems have as much in common with the old whigs as Obama does with Democrats Andrew Jackson or Tom Jefferson.