New Lib Dem friends

I wasn't sure about the idea of having a couple of Lib Dems appointed as ministers in Brown's government until I saw how upset and angry it made the Lib Dem activists, which made me decide that I am all for it.

I still don't get how it is a 'smear' for a newspaper to report that a party which hasn't finished in the top two in a general election since women got the vote might be offered some senior jobs in government. I'd have thought that was more a compliment than a smear.