"Don....I am not referring to "Liberal Democrat"....the party, but "liberal democrat"....the excuse."

If you're talking about British politics then at least take the trouble couch it in British terms. Your pejorative use of the term 'liberal democrat' to describe B.Liar is utterly wrong. He's on the right-wing of a slightly right-of-centre party referred to these days as 'New Labour' to distinguish it from the old socialist party.

B.Lair is a neo-Thatcherite poodle of right-wing nutters like George Bush and would make a bloody awful EU president as he universally distrusted in the UK for siding with the US's war. He sold the country out to the capitalist money-men and took Thatcher's creed of self-interest to new levels.

The people he represents don't need to vote to make their voices heard; money is power in today's society.