Is Clegg finished as Lib Dem leader?

So another interesting week for the coalition comes to an end. As I predicted last week, the four headed Lib Dem snake reverted to type and went off in all directions at once. Clegg just about managed to get his ministers to vote alongside the government; however I suspect the votes in favour had more to do with fears of loss of the ministerial limousine than it did with any conviction that they were doing the right thing.

The Munter from Mark as predicted got splinters in her arse by sitting on the fence to the very end and abstaining. What it is to have a conviction MP capable of making up her mind and then seeing it through to the bitter end. The Lib Dems are really the most spineless bunch, and their lack of intestinal fortitude is there for all to see the first time that the chips are down and a tough decision has to be made. God help us if we have to face a threat against the country with Clegg at the helm, that lot would still be fighting each other about the issue when the enemy tanks come rolling down Whitehall.

The mutterings of the Guardian readership classes are starting to heap pressure on poor old Clegg, the beard loving, sandal wearing,  yoghurt knitters are starting to revolt, (they’ve always been very revolting), and it appears old Cleggovers’ days may be numbered. With Lib Dem support dwindling away, down to 8% according to a recent poll, it may not be long before we see the usual me, me, me clamour for the top job. If Clegg is unable to command more than a quarter of his troops in the first big skirmish of what is likely to be a long war against Gordon Brown’s debt mountain, the coalition is unlikely to survive 12 months, leave alone the 5 years that is planned. The only solace that Clegg must have is to look around and see what the opposition looks like. I mean the Lib Dems have such a huge raft of talent at their disposal don’t they!

Charlie Kennedy’s battle with the bottle has ruled him out, poor old Vince Cable and Ming Campbell are past their sell by date, Simon Hughes is wetter than a wet thing and far too left wing to be taken seriously, David Laws could have been a contender until he was caught paying his parliamentary rent money to his boyfriend,  and Chris Huhne is struggling to hang on to his seat while flying thousands of miles back and forth to Cancun in Mexico, causing tons of Carbon Dioxide into the bargain, just  to attend the climate change conference!!! Still perhaps a bit of extra Carbon in the atmosphere might stave off this cold weather we are having! I suppose there is always the possibility that Munter from Mark could step into the breach, now that really would be entertainment worth seeing. Can’t you just imagine Deputy PMQ’s  with madam at the dispatch box?

No, come to think of it nor can I!!

The protests against the tuition fee increase provided yet again, an opportunity for rent-a-mob and every anarchist group in the country to go on the rampage causing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage, injuries to dozens of police officers, and threatening the safety of the heir to the throne.

I read today that the young hooligan seen swinging from the Union Flag attached to the Cenotaph in Whitehall is none other than the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. Gilmour junior is a history student at Cambridge, who claimed that he did not know what the monument was there for! Cambridge University are not going to take any action against him apparently, as the incident took place outside of term time. I would think they ought to take action against both him and his lecturers, if the spoilt brat is still so ignorant of the country’s history, despite a University education, that he does not know that the Cenotaph is there to commemorate the thousands of British soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice in two World Wars to ensure that he has the freedom to act in such a loutish manner.

He says that he acted in this way because he was high on LSD, I think if you check the law you will find that LSD is still illegal in this country. He is now contrite because he has been caught, however this is not the first time he has been filmed being involved in violence, and the first question I would ask him is why would you go to a march, wearing latex gloves to prevent incriminating finger prints, if you were not planning to get involved with illegality? Perhaps he's been watching too much CSI Miami instead of studying History!