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How does any of what happened happen if the lib dems refuse the coalition? Cameron's government collapses before it causes any real harm.
Exactly, they fell for the lies, continued happily falling for them and operated in lockstep with the Tories for the whole 5 year duration of the coalition. They accomplished nothing they promised and could have even thrown the coalition out once it was obvious and limited the damage they were causing—they did not. The absolute most charitable way of looking at them is completely oblivious imbeciles, and frankly is that who anyone should be voting for?
Holy shit the lib dems were not victims in the scenario, they enabled the whole bloody thing. They're demonstrably spineless, stand for nothing and couldn't resist grasping at the tiny bit of power they got no matter how much damage it caused to everything they were voted in to achieve.
It was disappointing that they agreed to the coalition, but at the time I remained hopeful. Then conceding every single manifesto pledge and party stance to the Conservatives, without any sort of resistance, just so they could stay in some sort of power, was absolutely unforgivable.