looks like he will be back in government before long:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...overnment.html

a fact which won't please the beard-n-sandals end of the lib-dem spectrum, because they know the orange-bookers have the upper hand right now and that a purge of one or the other is coming if the party is to be truly consistent to a set of core principles.

where would the beardies live then, they are a bit like panda bears; utterly incapable of surviving in the wild!