Oh, go on, let's be enemies, eh?

Man in a Shed announces the re-birth of the Clockwork Clegg blog.

I'm all for political discussion and scrutiny of Them by Us so I'd welcome it but for the fact that your man Shed is too jolly decent for my taste. He says Clockwork Clegg is 'not necessarily hostile' to developments on Planet LibDem.

Why not? Hostility is the only proper response to the bunch of shysters that is the Liberal Democratic Party.

I am still waiting for the 'Liberal' mouse to come out from underneath the soft-left ex-Labour SDP elephant. Most LibDem grass roots are way to the left of New Labour - Socialists in a yellow jacket.

To keep the roots happy, the front benchers snarl at Brown - if they can think up a good sound-bite (St Vincent's job) - though they are as keen as Old Labour on marxist social engineering and redistribution, at whatever cost. They can say whatever they think will make them popular on any and every subject because it matters not a tuppenny toss. The only price they have to pay for this luxury is the occasional pang of resentment at never being picked for the Big Boys' team.

Think about it. Have you ever - ever - heard a LibDem offer an unpopular opinion or make an un-populist proposal? Or one which is absolutely never going to but gets them face time on the box?

They are an thoroughly incredible and mendacious shambles of very illiberal soft-Lefties led by 'You want it? We have it. Er, whatever it is' power-seekers and indentured Eurocrats like Brussels-insider Clegg.

Nationally, they are doomed to scorn and a permanent place out in the cold. They make no pretence of defending the nation of Britain, its culture, traditions and history or its interests in Europe. They are avowedly more internationalist than the technically internationalist-socialist Labour Party..

Their only real success is confined to local politics where, being principle-free, they can adapt like to attain and retain power - until they are rumbled and/or turn out to be a bunch of grossly incompetent big spenders.

The LibDems are going to get savaged at the general election. A reason to get the very old malt out. to follow the Grouse down the hatch.