Allow me to take a shot. - In the election 5 years ago there was no clear winner, the Lib Dems chose to go into a coalition government with the party who recei

Allow me to take a shot. - In the election 5 years ago there was no clear winner, the Lib Dems chose to go into a coalition government with the party who received the largest proportion of the vote. - This coalition meant compromising on several key issues, for example tuition fees for university, in exchange for getting through other policies (raising the free tax allowance for the lower paid). - The lib dems failed to properly communicate their achievements as a liberal/progressive force within government, and spent their time apologising for every compromise. - Scotland moved strongly to a nationalist party, hurting a traditional source of seats. - The polls looked as though there would be another coalition, and the people who previously voted lib dem were damned if they were going to vote effectively for another coalition in which they felt the party betrayed its values tl;dr they got burned for doing the "right thing". As I've said before on HN, people here seem to think that security is a huge issue. Surveillance, police state etc. In all of the election content I saw, it was mentioned maybe once or twice and barely scrutinised. The people of the UK did not care about it, and the politicians left it in the manifestos. As for the GP comment suggesting something about dictatorship, it's probably the most ridiculous thing I've read in some time.