Playing the long game

I wonder who tipped off the media that the liberal democrats were talking to labour as well as the conservatives.  It has crossed my mind that it may have been a tory tip off.

  
Glegg is pretty well now in a situation where if the conservatives will not budge on electoral reform then he will have to do a deal with labour.  He has walked into a situation where he will appear to have propped up an unelected and unpopular PM who is presiding over an economic catastrophe, an unwinnable war and any number of domestic problems.  The electoral arithmetic of such an alliance simply does not add up.  The conservatives with a smidgen of help from one of the smaller parties, can bring the whole pack of cards down pretty well at a time of their choosing.  If David Cameron is patient, he could even force labour and the liberal democrats to drink long and hard from the poisoned chalice of public spending cuts.  On top of that, the chances of the liberal democrats getting electoral reform on the statue book before it all falls apart are close to zero.
 
An election with a conservative landslide could be less than a year away.  Cameron may just have played an absolute blinder.
 
Shame about the electoral reform though
Best wishes
Will