The New Statesman’s rolling politics blog   Clegg stakes
everything on the coalition  Lib Dems won’t pull out if
referendum is lost ++ Clegg claims party’s “identity crisis”
would be wor  There's been much discussion of the impact that
the electoral reform referendum will have on the future of the
coalition, but Nick Clegg has just put a stop to speculation
that the Lib Dems could walk away.  In a Radio 4 interview due
to be broadcast this weekend, he suggests that his party would
not quit the government even if the referendum is lost.  It's
not altogether surprising that Clegg isn't willing to stake
everything on the Alternative Vote, a system he once denounced
as a "miserable little compromise". But his provocative comments
-- he declares that the Lib Dems aren't "a sort of glorified
form of the Electoral Reform Society" -- are likely to unsettle
the party's grass roots further.  Then there's his dubious claim
that the Lib Dems would be in an even worse position (YouGov's
daily tracker has them on 14 per ce