Nick Clegg writes: the only alternative to New Labour is the Liberal Democrats

Nick writes in today's Guardian: 'A home for progressives' Nick presents a sharp critique, post Henley of the state of politics. Despite the Tories riding a full 14% higher in the polls, we didn't see the great landslide we would have expected reflected in the outcome. They won fairly comfortably, but their vote didn't go up that much, and our vote did not collapse in this Tory stronghold - in fact it even crept up. The difference in the political landscape is, as Nick points out: "Most surprisingly, the by-election showed us that the evaporation of New Labour's support in southern England - so carefully put together in the 1990s by Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell - is now complete" Exactly. So the people who voted in their droves back in 1997 for a fairer more progressive Britain, (Blair's 'new dawn')... [read full story]