Labour red, Conservatives blue, Lid Dems who? - The Election of 5th 2015 

The Liberal Democrats place themselves in the middle of the political spectrum, thus many see as a 'wishy-washy' political party whose ideals won't really change and affect the country much - if they ever came into power. 

Before the Labour party started gaining popularity after being formed in the early 1900's, the Liberal Democrats used to be considered as one of the main political parties, holding power in 1905 to 1922. Since then, although they do play a big part in UK politics, its clear to say that their political influence and power has been declining,  

Nonetheless, Nick Clegg managed to agree to a coalition with David Cameron after the election of 2010 showed no clear majority, The Lib Dems then saw this as a golden opportunity to implement some of their policies they promised in the 2010 election to try and gain some popularity for their party again, one of the main key issues being tuition fees. 

Before the election, they targeted votes towards students and the younger voting generation, winning them over by promising to lower £6,000 a year tuition fees. 

However, later during the term tuition fees were raised to £9,000 a year. 

Many felt that Clegg had lied to them, and although he published an apology video for breaking his promised, it has been remixed into a sort of song, and the Labour Party focused their 2015 political broadcast around 'the incredible shrinking man' showing Nick Clegg physically shrinking during the 5 year coalition,. 

Since then, the Liberal Democrats went from 57 seats to 8 seats in 2015, and Nick Clegg resigning as the leader of the party. Like UKIP, will they ever be able to make a comeback in 2020?