This is an excellent piece on what went wrong for the Lib Dems which echos a simiiar message: https://nicktyrone.com/what-went-wr...ection-campaign-heres-a-forensic-examination/
I always thought it was a mistake to agree to this election. I know that just sitting there doing nothing with a totally dysfunctional parliament was hardly a long term strategy but it seemed preferable to this.
Yeah I think Labour kinda had to agree once the LDs said they would support it cos that already constitute a majority. The thing to me is that at one point there were the numbers to add amendments etc and then vote them through, the opposition coalition thing had bigger numbers than the party who were ostensibly in power. At that point they could have put their differences aside and formed a unity government or whatever but Swinson refused to countenance Corbyn as leader and Corbyn refused to countenance anyone else... it only needed one of them to do the right thing but it never really looked like happening. And here we are.Just remember why it happened. Labour were opposed and the Lib Dems and the SNP forced them to accept it. But no, its all the fault of a radical manifesto with popular policies, not the arrogance of centrists.