Lib-Dem/Tory merger?

The new Lib-Dem-Tory symbol

Fraser Nelson over at the Telegraph looks at the possibility of a permanent merger of the Liberal Democrats with the Tories.  This doesn't surprise me. Twenty years ago, I would have laughed at such a preposterous idea, but the Tory party has strayed so far from its principles under the odious Mr David Cameron (a man whom I have in a very short time gone from distrusting to loathing) that I wouldn't be surprised if the Tories didn't merge with the Lib-Dems and a week later invited Labour to join in the fun.  There's scarcely any daylight between them at the moment.

The irony is that none of this should have been necessary.  Mr Gordon Brown handed Mr Cameron an landslide victory on a platter that said Mr Cameron then squandered into a hung Parliament.  I firmly believe that if the Tories offered the voters a truly conservative manifesto that included a promise to repeal everything New Labour ever did, half of what John Majors did, a quarter of what Lady Thatcher did, and promised an immediate Day One repeal of the Human Rights Act followed the next day by a straight up or down referendum on Britain leaving the EU, the Conservatives would have a majority that would stand for the next two generations.