It’s twelve months of Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrat leadership today and he celebrates by giving an interview to The Independent, saying he wants to be taken seriously. “It would help if he didn’t claim to have slept with up to 30 women,” said Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning. Andrew Pierce then came on and pointed out that this was unfair: we don’t know if they were all women. And this is the tragedy for Cleggover: this is all people care about. Last week in PMQs he said that a single mother with two children had come to see him in his constituency, and the House roared with laughter – the joke being that might well have been the father. (It shows what guilty minds these MPs have). Alas poor Clegg: what’s up?
It’s even more of a tragedy because he has been making good points, and often ahead of the pack.
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