Norman Baker Excels Himself

[Danny-Boy]

My main gripe with Baker and a lot of the other Lib Dems is how they're all insistent they oppose Government policy like tuition fees so much. If that's the case, then why didn't they all resign from the Government and vote against the proposals? One suspects it is because their ministerial titles and salaries are more important to them than the principles and promises on which they were elected.

Let's just think through the result of that alternative.

The government, and probably David Cameron's leadership of it, would fall. The Tories would be in no mood to govern without a working majority in the House.
Result, they would call a new General Election. Their ticket would be that they had not previously received a clear mandate (this actually happened in 1974 with the Wilson government).
The outcome? Well both the Tories and Labour would hack into the disilusioned LD voters who either had got fed up - as you have - of supporting the Tories - or else felt that the LDs had let the Tories down. Either way the LD vote would collapse, possibly back to the 1974 level when we had about 6 MP's I think.

Either way the LD's would lose, so it's not a question of losing ministerial privileges, it's more a question of losing all semblance of power in the future.

Not much of a choice is it?