So, now it’s war.
As the reshuffle unfolded, my timeline was full of fellow Lib Dems asking “Is Cameron actively trying to piss us off?” And frequently it did feel like that. But of course the truth is, Cameron wasn’t really bothered what we thought. That wasn’t what this reshuffle was about. Neither was it really about a strategy to win the next general election – a lurch to the right seems unlikely to hoover up enough votes from UKIP to compensate for the seats the Tories would have won if the boundary changes had gone through.
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