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"Tory-Lib Dem Split"? Over what, exactly?

Everything that the Coalition has done, both parties to it have done. No such thing could have happened without the approval of both parties.

Why do the media want to save the Lib Dems?

Oh, well, would it always be unacceptable to advocate a Conservative vote next year, even at South Thanet, thereby ensuring that even if there were three or four UKIP MPs from Kent and Essex, Nigel Farage would have to beg one of them for a House of Commons staff pass, precluding his entry to certain bars?

Would it always be unacceptable to advocate a Lib Dem vote next year, even at Gordon, thereby ensuring that even if there were 20 SNP MPs, Alex Salmond would have to beg for a House of Commons staff pass from one of his grateful protégés or his starstruck admirers? How grateful or how starstruck would they still be, in that case?

Would that always be unacceptable? Would it? Would it, really?

I love the idea of Farage's having less access to the Palace of Westminster than is probably still enjoyed by Patrick O'Flynn, whom I very much doubt has given up his Lobby pass, nor would anyone expect him to do so.

Ho, hum. The wheels started to come off UKIP today, for all that the BBC has scarcely mentioned the fact. There are five months for the wheels to come off the SNP, too.