Nick Clegg is a standard-issue, rabble-rousing politician of the old school. Anyone who knows a bit of history knows that. Pity more people don't know a bit of history.
He is a very average power-hungry politico weaving a web of mendaciously magic words and gestures to beguile and galvanise the angry and the ill-informed - people who have never taken (and will never take) a good look at the consequences for them were his policies ever enacted.
Nor are they aware of the dishonest brutality which the hard men in LibDem Party HQ deploy as standard operating procedure when they are after power in local politics. "Clean", clever Mr Clegg has some very stupid policies and some very dirty associates. UPDATE - from whom he refuses to dissociate himself.
Most of Clegg's parliamentary colleagues have no experience whatsoever of the practice of government and a less than firm grasp of the theory of it. Their economic ideas are terrifyingly juvenile and fronted by an old fraud whose unmasking this week escaped the attention of the adoring crowd of Nick-worshippers.
But Nick looks good and makes a nice noise, and that's what we like. Isn't it, boys and girls? All together now: CRACKERJACK!
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