[pydry]

Voting for fringe parties has more effect than people give it credit for - they can and do put pressure on the main parties even when they dont get a lot of votes. With UKIP it changed the whole country (not for the better obviously, but they did).

That said, I'd make an exception for Lib Dems purely because the party is full of awful people with no real principles who have and would turn on a dime for political advantage. It has been a vote in the bin for 24 years.

[tonyedgecombe]

I'll vote for the Lib Dems simply because that is the most likely way we can get proportional representation.

[seabass-labrax]

The Lib Dems had their chance though, in the 2010 coalition with the Tories. Lib Dems might indeed be the biggest party promoting proportional representation as a policy, but what is to say that they will be able to implement it even if they did form a government?

[tonyedgecombe]

It turned out David Cameron was willing to give them PR without a referendum but they didn't ask for it. I doubt they will make that mistake again.