Three times last night, one of the chaps who want to be prime minister put clear yellow water between himself and his competitors and between himself and reality, when Clegg called for 'all the chancellors and vice-chancellors' to run the British economy together. Aw, bless. Genuine LibDem politics in action!
Who are these plural chancellors? There's only one in the real world. And vice-chancellors? Aren't they the academics who run universities? I'd have thought they have their hands full already but apparently Nick wants to draft them into a LibDem government (don't... stop it...) to hold Doctor Fable's hand in the Treasury.
I know Vince needs all the carers he can get now that he's been dismembered, and inclusivity is a fine thing of course, but surely conscripting a bunch of unelected dons to run the economy is taking liberalism a bit far.
Unless of course Nick didn't mean what he said.
Dear St. Nick, not meaning what he said? Wash your mouth out with soap AT ONCE, if not sooner. Seriously for a moment, how the horsefly's* pants haven't burst into flame yet I will never know.
ReplyDelete*Cleg: handy Scottish word for horsefly. Nasty buzzy thing that jumps out and bites you all unexpected like, leading to severe irritation in the affected part.
He said the vice-chancellors thing in the first debate too. He put forward an idea that all of the parties 'vice-chancellors' should work together. Brown laughed directly at his face and then said his chancellor was already working with the best experts and there would be no need to do that.
ReplyDeleteSO Clegg seems to either think that's what a shadow chancellor is, or he spends his time in a fantasy world where he's the vice-PM once removed.