Muscular Liberalism

Clegg says that the Lib Dems will be ensuring that henceforth the Coalition government will be subjected to muscular liberalism. One wonders precisely what that means. Will every Coalition bill or regulation come with a picture of a muscular member of the Lib Dems on it or will they have attached to them a note setting out on which particular clause the Lib Dems exerted their muscles? If the latter is the case presumably they will only want the note to emphasise those bits where they think they won the argument and not those bits where although they exercised their muscles they lost the point. All very confusing as the broad policy decisions to be taken by the Coalition are set out in the Coalition Agreement. Surely the Lib Dems are not seeking to re-negotiate the terms of that document? If so they may find themselves on difficult territory as not unreasonably the Tories may decide that they want to re-negotiate the terms as well. The Tories will increase in confidence over the coming months as Labour continues to lose momentum. If the Lib Dems were sensible they would continue more or less as they have have over the past year, perhaps clipping Cable's wings and letting the disastrous Huhne go the way of all flesh. If they were to follow that course their standing with the public can only grow on the coat tails of the Tories.