Boris On Clegg

An interesting column in the Telegraph by Boris Johnson caught my eye this morning. It was nice to finally see amongst the media someone who wasn’t swooning over “Churchill Clegg” and the Lib Dems, like a schoolgirl with a crush on the new kid at school.

In the article he contemplates the madness that has befallen the nation over the new found support for Mr Clegg. Whilst I do not share his blind optimism about the certainty of a Conservative all out victory at the forthcoming General Election, he does make some valid arguments in his dressing down of Mr Clegg. My favourite paragraphs from the column:

“Everybody treats Vince Cable as a semi-holy Mahatma Gandhi of British politics, because he is supposed in some way to have anticipated the financial crisis. Actually his most notable recommendation before the crisis was that Britain should join the euro – a move that would gravely have worsened our current position by leaving us in a Greek-style straitjacket.

What crouton of substance did Clegg offer last Thursday, in the opaque minestrone of waffle? He wants to get rid of Trident. Great! So Lib Dem foreign policy means voluntarily resigning from the UN Security Council, abandoning all pretensions to world influence, and sub-contracting our nuclear deterrent to France! They are a bunch of euro-loving road-hump fetishists who are attempting like some defective vacuum cleaner to suck and blow at the same time; and the worst of it is that if you do vote Lib Dem in the demented belief that there could ever be such a thing as a Lib Dem government, you won't get Prime Minister Clegg. You'll get Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for five more holepunch-hurling years, because the Lib Dems almost always vote with Labour, and in my years in Parliament I can't remember a single moment when they opposed a Labour measure to expand state spending or state control.”