praha, I stole it from Guardian cartoonists, they thought of it first, but yes, didn't take much imagination to make up.
: )

link, http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/cartoons/2010/5/14/1273...

and the latest, with the rest of his friends. No sign of Jiminy Cricket still, though, to save his nose/arse,
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/201...

I thought Clegg was a closet tory before the election. What has surprised me has been the complete lack of balls in the likes of Kennedy and co. I regret ever having voted for the LDs when he was leader.

Unfortunately my MP is Featherstone; hopefully she'll get the boot soon.

In 1945 many Germans said that they "didn't know" about the Nazi atrocities in the WW2 Holocaust (30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies killed with many dying from war-imposed deprivation).

In 2010 Britons have no such excuse - several mouse-clicks will reveal the Awful Truth of violent and non-violent excess deaths associated with what many eminent scholars and writers now variously call the Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide (0.3 million, 4.4 million and 4.5 million violent and non-violent excess deaths, respectively; see "Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide": http://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ) .

To Nick Clegg's credit he is one of a small group of British politicians who have had the moral courage to speak out on at least part of this horrendous, ongoing atrocity.

Thus while Nick Clegg will be condemned by History for supporting the Afghanistan War, he has unequivocally condemned the Iraq Invasion as illegal; "[re Jack Straw] we may have to wait for his memoirs, but perhaps one day he will account for his role in the most disastrous decision of all: the illegal invasion of Iraq" (see UK Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/21/nick-clegg-illegal-iraq-w... ).

Of course while Nazi Germany was a dictatorship the UK is a democracy (albeit a Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy kind of democracy) - and accordingly unlike the good Germans who "didn't know" (and couldn't do much about it if they did), all British citizens are morally obliged to support anti-war politicians like George Galloway, and failing that, to at the very least support politicians like Nick Clegg with the courage to at least oppose the illegal and genocidal Iraq War (and failing that, British voters are accessories after the fact of the world's worst war crimes since WW2).

praha, might as well tell where I got 'the stupid boy' part from as well, in video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V3SqxUomwk

Doomed. Doomed. But all they need is a core vote of 12%, and they'll always hold the balance of power I think that puts another gloss on it. So they could end up laughing.

I voted lib dem for the first and last ever time at the election. It is shocking to see Clegg support this hard right cuts agenda.Talk about selling your soul!

@Robert.
If they are going to stand down in each other's favour what is the point of the A.V.referendum?
So much for more choice,fairness and democracy.
You are just like the rest of your unprincipled Lib/Dem chums only interested in power regardless of the cost to the people.

How low can the Lib Dems go?

"The lowest the Liberal Democrat party has ever polled seems to be 4% in MORI’s polls between June and August 1989, when their support was being split by the continuing SDP.

"Looking at their predecessor, the lowest Liberal party score I can find in a poll was 1.5% in a Gallup poll in 1955."

"...an ICM poll from the Sunday Correspondent in 1989 that had the Lib Dems at 3% ... Can anyone beat that?"

Thanks to: http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/2767

Looking forward to a future 3%.

If you fell asleep around about 1860 and woke up today, you would recognise immediately the sort of government Britain has, viz: a Tory/Whig coalition.

As a former Liberal voter of many decades standing (now resident overseas), I'd like to know what's happened to the party of J.M. Keynes?

Thank goodness, hey Mary, I was hoping for this.

I said it before they announced the coalition. Clegg has killed the LibDems as a serious player in Parliamentary politics.They had a chance to use a small wedge of power and they sold it for personal gain. Clegg behaved like a whore, now he will find the rewards weren't quite as substantial as he thought.
LibDems vote LibDem because they do not want to vote tory. So why on earth would they suport any government inficting the usual tory attacks on the poor and weak in society. They should call Clegg 'Flusher' Clegg, that is what he has done...flushed the libdems down the soil pipe of politics.

The big hole in the LibDem argument is that their post election poll slides are put down to lack of media coverage. But since this election they've had as much, if not more, coverage than they during the election campaign.

In 39 of their seats the Labour party are in second and since 97 Labour has lost 1.9 million voters to the LibDems. I think over the next couple of years there will be another death of Liberal England, but it this death won't be strange.

The LibDems had a once in a generation chance to get a ref on PR. But Clegg fucked it because he is fundamentally a pro-EU tory. Tatty bye LibDems although I thought some of your policies decent I always found you to be sanctimonious and unprincipled, Clegg being a prime example.

does anyone else feel, that when clegg speaks, it's like he's telling a story to his children, night night nick.

Chris
Good post,the lib Dums are really in trouble.

What we have is tyranny and when an unelected government rips up the welfare state - well, you might expect anger to boil over.

all it means that Labour will be back in soon, with a whole new mandate to continue our financial and moral bankruptcy

i have just read the poll figures and i find them very amusing, all that sickly rubbish glegg talked before the elec, in the house about the tories &labour not making the banks lend more money, i read osborne is going to make the banks lend more money, if he and chameleon had there way, there would'nt be any banks they would all have gone bust,& includs tosser glegg

The LibDems are going down the pan, and rightly so. They disgust me. But as someone said at the Radio 5 hustings, Labour in power had lost the plot - wars, ID cards, and many other foolish mistakes. Now when the new governemnt are attacking us and our people, we desperately need Labour to defend us, and to do the job.

Surely now under a new leader, the party can concentrate on the fundamental issues for which the party should exist.

The coalition was political suicide for the LibDems. Nick's face above seems to show that he's finally understood that - hahahaha

i hope this steady increase in labour support doesnt mean the electorate prefer them without a leader.

its obvious that this coalition cant last, and that is good news because this little episode in our history has revealed that our system of democracy is held in total contempt by these people.

however, there are still a number of issues that labour has to address relating to why they failed, before the next election when both the conservatives and libdems are wiped out FOREVER.

Lib Dems have destroyed their own brand. I don't even think their staunchest advocate could describe what the party stands for. Back to the minor leagues for Nick et al.