And he's off...

Well, they forced him out. Not a great surprise to anyone, really.

They got rid of the best leader they ever had and Sir Ming Campbell took on the poisoned chalice which he didn't really want in the first place.

Then they moan about how old he is. It wasn't like he was botoxed up when they elected him, was it?

They are flatlining in the polls because they are pretty irrelevant but they do well at by elections and why? Well, from my experience in the Bromley By Election it's because they openly lie to voters. They are all things to all people and don't care what they say as long as they get votes.

One of my colleagues used to be in the Lib Dems and told me that they used to go vandalise their election posters and then blame it on the opposition or do nasty things to the other side and hope that kids would get the blame. Nice, eh? Obviously I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but that is what he tells me and I'm just passing it on.

Also, shouldn't they change their name to illiberal bureaucrats? Either that or they should be reported to the trading standards because their policies aren't liberal or democratic. Alright, they want proportional representation so ever vote counts, but they also try to kid people that the EU Constitution is just a 'tidying up exercise' and want full integration so that the people who make the decisions aren't accountable to the people who will have to live by those rules.

By being in the EU they also don't want a small state or free trade, and they are always proposing ridiculously high taxes which stifle innovation and hard work and keep people poor.

So the question should be not who will take over, but why would anyone take over....