Clegg, his Fairy Godmother and his coalition dreams

I blogged earlier about the fatuity of coalition government. Not that it's going to happen, nor a hung parliament neither, no matter how the BBC agonises in its prayers to its weird gods.

Which is why, Cleggie, you are wasting your time advocating coalition governments and trying to abolish our adversarial electoral system which has proved to be the least bad at delivering democratic scrutiny and effective policy making. If you disagree, Cleggie, perhaps you can show me how well democratic scrutiny and effective policy-making are achieved in, for example, Italy, Greece - oh, and your former employer, the European Union. Call me suspicious, but since you are not a fool I suspect you agree with the Martin proposition but maintain your electoral policy as your only chance - vanishingly thin though it be - of gaining the power of government office. Eventually. In due course. When the time is ripe. Maybe. Or then again... Call me cynical, but I suspect that if your Fairy Godmother (I assume you believe in her, being a Liberal Democrat) offered you Number Ten on condition you laid aside the PR nonsense, you'd become an FPTP fan overnight. Call me bitter and twisted, but I suspect that if you ever gained power through your Fairy Godmother's good offices (you're not going to get it any other way so I'd stay on her good side if I were you) we would never hear another word from you about PR. You'd probably pass some Brown-type gerrymandering constitutional law outlawing PR for ever. You are a Libdem, after all, so nobody looks to you for coherence, consistency or integrity.

Love The One You're With is your official party anthem, isn't it?