Lib Dems - Wots that all about?

This is blog 91 by the way.
So this party have just elected a guy who will close on 70 by the time Gordon Brown calls the next election - and however he tries he can't look anything other than a old minger. The party itself will probably get called 'The Mingers' from now onwards too. Age itself doesn't really matter I suppose, but these Lib Dems seem to wonder what they are for. The last leader was pushed out (probably by a faction led by the newly elected leader) because he was a recovering alcoholic - not recovering enough for lots of people. One contender was revealed as having a peccadillo - a regular rent boy - although he had paraded his wife and children as a guarantee of his probity and credentials as a leader. All senior politicians in the UK seem to be breeding like rabbits, so a gay leader might be a welcome change. Another contender couldn't make up his mind about his sexuality despite the fact that everyone knew he was gay (and didn't care about it at all!)
In the midst of all this the Lib Dems win a famous bye-election. All publicity is clearly good publicity. Now, they decide they want to privatise the Post Office (following the Japanese?) No one seems to know quite why - although the current Royal Mail service is dire and most branch offices seem likely to close as the government force most pensioners/benefit recipients to receive payment directly into the bank - in spite of this resulting in most of them having to pay at a cash machine to take it out. The Lib Dems also seem to be dropping the notion of taxes being imposed on the rich. So - what are they for? Just there to supply MPs to the fringes of the Kingdom - and to run some Councils? How many of the current MPs will survive the next election - if the electorate think there will be a close result can many really want to see a major party's manifesto watered down and the geriatric Sir Menzies as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster or Lord Privy Seal and Simon Hughes as Minister for Europe?
Makes you think.