Nasty Nick

It is very interesting watching our new Deputy Prime Minister trying to out do the Tories in the ferocity of his attacks on Labour's handling of the UK economy, seeking to blame the current budget deficit solely on Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling, conveniently ignoring the impact of the world wide economic recession and the fact that the Labour Government had to borrow huge sums to bail out the banks.

Clegg obviously believes the more that you say something the more likely it is that people will start to believe it and the easier it will be to justify the Tory economic medicine that his coalition partners have in store for us.

I wonder what the bold Nick might have said today if he was Deputy Prime Minister in a Labour-Lib Dem coalition government: something quite different I would suggest.

Thank God the Labour Leadership came to their senses and told this chancer where to go.

My firm prediction is that he will end up in the Tory Party one day where he clearly belongs.