SPARE a thought for dear old Paddy Ashdown, who announced proudly to party activists that we were all now living in the Liberal Age but was asked, if that was so, then why had he never become prime minister.
To which, the peer answered himself: "The bastards wouldn't vote for me."
IT'S official. The public has fallen out of love with Calamity. Gone are the posters, the mugs bearing the leader's mug and the "I agree with Nick" T-shirts. Ed Davey, the loyal Secretary for all things green, declared Cleggmania had come to a crashing end because of those tough but necessary decisions in government. "But," he added, "as we get nearer to the election and people look at what he has delivered and the Lib Dems have delivered, he will get respect." Respect but no love. How sad.
VICKY Pryce, the former Mrs Chris Huhne, has returned to the Lib Dem family with a fringe appearance. Predictably, it prompted the cruel question from one wag: "Did she get a lift or did she drive herself?"
THE mushrooming SNP (latest membership around 75,000) has boasted that the number of members at its branch meetings in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverclyde and Dundee the other night was larger than the total congregation of Lib Dem parishioners (total membership 45,000) at the annual conference. No gloating, please.
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