Local elections: Labour make gains in England and Wales

[Ken Burch]

9. I suspect they'd be terrified to do that

out of fear that Cameron would retaliate by calling a snap election(which would force the LibDems to campaign on their record in the Coalition and cut their share of the popular vote by half, with their seat count cut to 1940's Liberal levels, if the polls I've seen are correct).

In this regard, Cameron's strategy(force the LibDems to vote for a large number of neo-Thatcherite policies in exchange for getting the referendum on electoral reform, then sabotage the referendum by choosing an alternative electoral system NO ONE wanted, knowing that only the LibDems would suffer for it)was brilliant.