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Gleeful end to Lib Dem conference

Nick Clegg put in an appearance at Glee Club last night – albeit only in 2-dimensional form as a cardboard cutout – while Lib Dem activists sang a timely (or perhaps inappropriate) song about bombing Iraq called the ‘Iraqi-cokey’:

Mr Steerpike was in attendance, too, although he struggled to keep up with some of the more exuberant celebrations:

As well as their rousing land value tax song, the Libs also produced a charming eulogy to the failure of the last possible Lib-Lab pact, which mostly consisted of the party’s youth members shouting that ‘Tony Blair can f*** off and die!’

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