Liberals to Protest Pain of Power

Thousands of disillusioned liberals are expected to demonstrate this weekend in protest at being thrust into a power-sharing arrangement with the Conservative Party.

The British Liberal party and its successor, the Liberal Democrat party, have not had members in Cabinet posts in over sixty years.

Many lifelong supporters will gather in London this Saturday to register their dismay at losing the irresponsibility that goes with unelectability and to beg the coalition government not to introduce the single transferable vote which could shatter forever their dreams of insouciant impotence.

"I've voted Liberal all my life with never the slightest risk of their manifesto being adopted," said Hubert de Caffeinated-Muesli, fortysomething, of Norwich.

"If reform does take place along the lines we've always advocated, it will be the end of a dream for millions."

"The realisation that being in charge means taking responsibility has been forced upon us by the hideous prospect of having some of the policies we favour actually enacted," gibbered thirtysomething Sandahl Thong of Yeovil.

"We didn't vote Lib Dem just to be saddled with the cares of office," Ms Thong continued. "Power can be a painful and inconvenient thing - just look at they way people like Lord Ashcroft and all those bankers have been suffering."