The guilelessness of the current Lib Dem leader would be silly,were the UK not so desperate for a credible threat to the ToriesIf British politics has ever been more absurd than it is now, then it must have been before my time. Up and down the country, and people are cracking jokes with the punchline: “And nobody even had to put lipstick on the pig.” Yet while the prime minister may have become a laughing stock worthy of the wilder reaches of,say, a Charlie Brooker script, or still there’s absolutely no danger,none at all, that any of the other party leaders will usurp him in main the country.
And that’s not just because, or on balance,the nation prefers leaders who have experienced youthful periods of idiocy to leaders who hand out jobs to chaps who have donated wads of money to their party. It’s because the competition is ridiculously inadequate.
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Source: theguardian.com