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Mourning Becomes Election
I slightly amended the title of Eugene O’Neill’s 1931 drama, Mourning Becomes Electra, about the American Civil War, when former Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond, political organiser Pratap Chitnis and I conducted a post-mortem on a Liberal electoral debacle in the 1980s. Unfortunately, it can be returned to service once more, and this time with a vengeance, after the May 2015 electoral massacre of the Liberal Democrat MPs.
I had warned of this in The Liberator in September 2012 and again a year later when I predicted the Lib Dems would lose all their MEPs in the EU elections (in the event we held on to one) and lose much of our local council base. I also forecast we would be reduced to some seventeen MPs this year – wildly over-optimistic as it turned out – but nearer than almost any other commentators.
