Ed Davey elected leader of the Party of Mischief
Irrelevant: Ed Davey (right) with former Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, who led the party to a crashing defeat including the loss of her own Parliamentary seat in the 2019 general election.
It doesn’t really matter who the new leader of the Liberal Democrats is; as an electoral force, that party is over.
Nowadays it has proved more useful to the Conservatives, as a way of ensuring Labour cannot get the seats the main Opposition party needs to win an election.
No doubt you’ve seen the literature that spews forth from the Lib Dems at every election saying “Labour can’t win here!” illustrated with the infamous Liberal Democrat block graph that has been doctored to make Labour’s share of the most recent vote look less than it actually was.
Most recently, both newly-elected party leader Sir Ed Davey and his rival Layla Moran outflanked Keir Starmer’s newly-centrist Labour Party by advocating left-wing policies including higher taxes for the rich and a Universal Basic Income – Corbynite policies that Starmer dropped like hot coals.
Davey will never be in government to enact those policies – but his party’s support of them shows up Starmer’s Labour as having abandoned its core support base.
The result is likely to be a drain of support from Labour to the Liberal Democrats, ensuring further victories for the Conservatives.
And that’s despite the fact that the current Conservative government under Boris Johnson gives incompetence a bad name.
Source: Sir Ed Davey wins Liberal Democrat leadership race – BBC News
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