Advent Calendar Day Six

Hello, you.

It's a year and a half down the line, but it still hurts. A year and a half since one man put his own political ambition ahead of the people...

Day Six

Nick Clegg

Liar.Traitor. Sellout. Arsonist. Backstabber. Hypocrite. Just some of the wonderful character traits that 'our' Deputy Prime Minister can list on his ill-gotten CV. Arsonist? Just ask him about cacti.

Remember when people used to vote Liberal Democrat because they felt wrong voting for sack-of-spanners-Brown and didn't hate the poor and disenfranchised enough to vote Tory, but had enough of a grey area over most policies? Those days have gone, my friends. The warnings turned out to be true; a vote for the Lib Dems was indeed a vote for the Tories. See? See what you've done?

So yes, the quickest route to power (from a man who has form in this area, being instrumental in the downfall of Charles Kennedy and playing the waiting game with Sir Menzies Campbell, after blatantly stating in public that it was his ambition to be leader) was chosen by a man with no fucking shame whatsoever. Going from telling his party faithful at their 2009 conference that the "choice before people is the choice between fake, phoney change from David Cameron's Conservatives, and real change the Liberal Democrats offer" to, just a year later, saying to Cameron on microphone: "If we keep doing this we won’t have anything to bloody disagree on in the bloody TV debates", he has permanently damaged his party. Not that he cares. If his party decide to oust him, he'll just cross the floor to the Tories. And quite comfortably too.

Anyway, the man's an arse, and a disgrace to boot.

Back tomorrow!