Today’s quote of the day comes from Nick Clegg, speaking on the BBC:
No one went into politics to seek to deliver cuts, but we all know as a country it is necessary. It is going to be painful and controversial.
Well, he is certainly right about himself, and possibly some figures in the Labour Party from which he walked away (read the full story of that here).
But the same cannot be said for Margaret Thatcher, for instance, nor for the modern Tory party, which keeps her political flame alive, and with which Clegg has now allied himself.