Nick Clegg has been trooping round media outlets today to tell anyone that would listen that he has some "red lines" on education, and that it would be a "deal breaker" for any potential coalition partners if they failed to accept them.
I guess Nick has forgotten where he has been for the last five years and what he said before the last election. That's no surprise though as judging by the amount of landfill and recycling material his local constituency office has been posting through my door for the last five years he's been busy constructing leaflets, fake newspapers, and fabricating flyers which basically pretty much blame anyone else but his party for the difficulties the country faces. He blames the previous government for the global economic crisis, presumably as it is something that he thinks will let him off the hook, it plays well with the Tory press, and if you tell people something often enough then...
He also forgets that before the last election he said political advisers should be funded by the political parties that employ them. He currently has sixteen advisers that are paid for by our taxes. He forgets that he backed a mansion tax when in opposition, but his party voted against it when in bed with the Tories. He forgets that he was opposed to tuition fees and intended for them to be scrapped, yet went on to assist the Tories by voting to increase them from £3000 to £9000. There are so many about faces Clegg has made that dizziness from all that spinning has caused memory loss.
And now he says that there are "deal breakers". Hang on a minute, you've had opportunity after opportunity to be gung-ho against a slash and burn government, you could have imposed "deal breakers" before like those you claimed to support, yet only now when an election arrives you decide it's the time to act, to remind people that you might have teeth. Or is that it, it's just an act and your teeth are in a mug by the bed where they've been for the last five years. It would appear so from the evidence so far. What about when you sold off the Post Office at a great loss to the people of this country because you accepted a valuation by the pals of the Tories? You can't pretend you were out of the room planning dinner and polishing the cutlery and so missed the details, you must remember (there must be something you can remember) that one of your own MPs was in charge of the bloody process.
I understand that if you're busy trying to save your seat you might have been a bit busy, but surely part of that process must be to tell people about the good things you have achieved, the things that you have succeeded in doing for the benefit of your constituents and the country. You're probably having the same trouble as me in finding anything positive to say about what you've been up to, but then it is easily argued that I might be biased. Surely if you have done something of benefit you ought to have told us about it. After all it's not as if you haven't had a medium to get your message across, I've got a small forest worth of 'literature' you've cluttered our recycling bin with, you could have put it in one of those. Or perhaps even you can't find anything positive to say and you would just prefer to forget... Well, join the club.
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