Qaddafi used similarly disruptive tactics in politics, splitting Libya into ten administrative districts, then fifty-five, forty-eight, twenty-eight — each time with a complete purge of staff, so that no one except him could maintain authority for long.
But Clegg has fundamentally altered the electoral calculus of UK politics; the split left of the last 40 years has been replaced by a split right.
After briefly retiring from politics, Živković split from the Democratic Party and in 2013 founded the centre-right New Party.
"It is quite clear that the vote on the right in British politics is split down the middle," she told the Today programme.
But Len's greatest contribution was yet to come, and in the end he never returned to the U.S. Also at this time Eric Broadley decided he had had enough of Ford politics and split from FAV, taking his Lola men with him, of course, but also taking valuable ex-Aston craftsmen Laurie Bray, Terry Hadley, and Don Beresford, who had all elected to work for Eric.
In late January 2006, when the Liberal Democrats were at a dangerous crossroads after the resignation of Charles Kennedy and sexual shenanigans of leadership candidates, a long-term friend of new Conservative leader David Cameron gleefully predicted the third party of British politics could split in half – with the brightest stars defecting to the Conservatives.
Flags and identity really matter in Northern Ireland - a place where politics is split into two by beliefs in unionism and nationalism.
Faced with underlying problems from Fatah party politics, the split with Hamas, and the ubiquitous Israeli occupation, I would argue that it has been independent Fayyad's leadership that has kept the Palestinian Authority functioning.
Ms. Walsh will continue to blog for Salon occasionally as she writes her book, which she has titled "Indivisible" and describes as "an indictment of the fear-based politics that splits Americans and holds the country back".
When he won office in 2002, in a city where politics often splits along racial lines, whites supported him in greater proportion than other blacks did; indeed, critics called the former cable-TV executive "Ray Reagan" because of his chumminess with the city's conservative business elite.
