https://leftfootforward.org/2025/06/remembering-charles-kennedy-ten-years-on/
Charles Kennedy was a Liberal, so his politics differed from mine. Yet I always found him a likeable figure, and he rightly warned his party against going into coalition with the Conservatives, advice which his slick successor Nick Clegg unwisely did not heed.
As a consequence of the Clegg led Liberal support for the Conservatives, Cameron and Osborne were able to push through the austerity measures which have done so much lasting damage to the UK.
In addition, the Conservatives outfoxed their partners on the key issue of electoral reform, so the Liberals effectively got nothing in return for their support of Cameron.
In Kennedy's final election campaign, the SNP distributed this particularly nasty campaign material mocking his alcoholism.
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