Re: Lib Dems
Oh, and media bias is only a very tangenital factor here. Most of the media were highly favourable (either openly or otherwise) to the Alliance/David Owen in the 1980's and that didn't really do much good for the Liberals/SDP. In fact, the Alliance did a lot worse than the Lib Dems of today - who so often bitch about 'lack of exposure' - generally do.
The only real thing which holds the two party system together is the voting system. If it wasn't for the current voting system then Labour would undoubtedly have died as a party of government in the eighties and quite possibly the Tories as well. (at least in their current form.)
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