Don't judge Clegg by his weird allies

Come on, be fair. We all know that politicians, parties and nations choose the strangest bedfellows when it's in their interest or the nation's interest. Churchill and Stalin, Egypt and Israel. Mandelson and Clegg. No natural friendships there. Just mutual strategic advantage.

The pragmatic realpolitik of the European Union runs in Clegg's veins so he knows all this better than anyone, yet he and his worryingly hysterical foreign policy man Huhne (homophone: hoon) expect us to believe that the Tories just lurve making deals with Fascists, while LibDems make alliances only with saints.

But hold - what's this?

What of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe? This is the group which Nick Clegg's Lib Dem MEPs sit in. It's leader Guy Verhofstadt MEP wants to abolish the nation state. The Lib Dems fellow affiliates include the Feminist Initiative from Sweden, who had an MEP until last year. This Party's propose to abolish marriage and create "gender-neutral" names. Then there is the Latvian affiliate to the group the Lib Dem Euro MPs sit in. It is the LPP/LC a merger of two parties Latvian First Party and Latvian Way. It really is homophobic. One of its leaders equated gays to paedophiles. The Party regards homosexuals as degenerates.

Sometimes one needs one's enemy's whack-job enemy as an ally, so I don't condemn Clegg for making alliances with nutters and moonbats but I do condemn him for trying to con voters about it - and about so many other things.