If they gave Cable the chancellorship - an interesting possibility. I don't see how the conservatives can buy into a mansion tax to finance tax relief for the poor without upsetting their core vote - nor indeed how they could buy into closing tax loopholes when they too are core to the conservative belief (as that odious American woman said - "only little people pay taxes"). And I don't see how the LDs could in conscience accept the conservative position on such things.

I don't see how the LDs could in conscience accept such an obvious stall as an X-party commission on voting reform.

I don't see how in conscience the LDs could in conscience accept the conservative mantra of "cuts now" when they have said that excessive cuts too soon could jeopardise the recovery - but we know that the immediate axe on the poor is a conservative axiom.

I don't see how in conscience the LDs could accept conservative militarism - but the conservatives will never scrap trident.

In short, the only explanation I can see for any conservative/LD discussions is that Clegg is simply trying to climb the greasy pole. It's a power grab for power's sake and if Clegg does do it surely it will blow the LDs apart.