Originally published in The Guardian Lib Dem brokers misled and tried to run a dutch auction. This Thatcherite-liberal love-in can’t last Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived. This will doubtless be true of the Cameron-Clegg coalition, the most unprincipled governing combination in Britain since the Fox-North coalition of 1783, which united a similarly implausible duo [...]