A Good News Day for the Lib Dems - but has anyone noticed?

[miss_s_b]

Charlotte Green's dulcet tones really cheered me up this morning, as I was reluctantly dragged from the arms of Morpheus. The 9am news bulletin on radio 4 went like this:

• The Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg says Chancellor Darling should resign
• David Cameron says he is willing to look at the Liberal Democrat idea of recall elections
• Labour are third behind the Lib Dems in a general election voting intention poll for the first time in eleventy billion years

... and then the first item on BH was a nice long interview with Nick Clegg in which there was much talk about Vince's forensic dismantling of Darling in his *shudder* Daily Fail column. Add to that that the Observer has endorsed the Lib Dems for the Euro election, and CiF has a piece by Andrew Rawnsley about how we are the only party which is serious about electoral reform, and we seem to be dominating the headlines today.

So what are the top stories according to Newswire on LC? Not a single mention of the Lib Dems. Oh dear. I think the mice have been nibbling his cables again.

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Comments

[From: skybard.livejournal.com]

I said it once and I shall say it again: happy happy happy news!

[From: (Anonymous)]

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[From: andrewhickey.info]

Wonder if your comment about the almighty newswire will be allowed to stay...

[From: rhythmaning]

I heard the headline about Labour in third place to LibDems - and I thought I must have misheard it!

It is good that Vince has a column in Daily/Sunday Mail - otherwise he's just talking to the converted. But I share your dislike...

The Economist has an article about how the one thing NOT featuring in UK Euro elections is - wait for it - Europe! Oh well.

[From: matgb]

It is good that Vince has a column in Daily/Sunday Mail

Best bit? He doesn't let them pay him (it's not like he needs the money), instead they have to donate his fee to the Twickenham Lib Dems, making the Daily Mail the largest donor to his local party...

[From: (Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm not really getting how the Tories being about to win is good news for anyone, in fact. I suppose it's slightly less disastrous if you have a permanent job and someone around to keep you out of the 'demonic evil single mother of doom' category, and aren't a refugee or anything like that, but it doesn't really seem like it's wonderful news for anyone. Though I suppose all the upper-management/bankers can contradict me on this. Frankly I'm just terrified.

[From: andrewhickey.info]

It's not a good thing for the Tories to get in. It *is* a good thing that the Lib Dems are doing better.

And at this point, what damage could the Tories do that Labour haven't already done?