I suspect The Lib Dem stance on the EU has very little to do with the kicking they received in the polls.
I think you'll find that alienating their voters by sidling up to the Tories and abandoning pretty much every principle they had has played a far bigger part in it. Grabbing a shot at power by joining forces with a party with which they share virtually no ideological common ground, and which most of their voters see as the enemy of everything they stand for would kill your support pretty effectively.
Linking the electoral drubbing of the Lib Dems with the EU question and the success of UKIP is pretty disingenuous.
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