"Now we can sit back and watch the Tories go mad" - an apology

When the Liberal Democrats won the Eastleigh by-election in the small hours of 1 March, I got rather carried away on Twitter:

Congratulations to @mike4eastleigh - now we can sit back and watch the Tories go mad #libdemandproud
— Jonathan Calder (@lordbonkers) March 1, 2013

Later that morning I was quoted on the Today programme as a "prominent Liberal Democrat blogger".

But I was wrong. In the aftermath of Eastleigh the Conservatives kept their nerve and behaved sensibly.

Two months later, however, following UKIP's performance in the local elections, they have indeed gone completely hatstand.