Rain, Toys, Clegg

[poliphilo]

It rained yesterday and it's going to rain some more today. Apparently it's all down to the seasonal melting of the Greenland ice. The sogginess of May is now so predictable that commentators are beginning to talk (seriously or in jest, I'm not sure which) about the British monsoon season.

I spent £15 in the Red Cross shop in Paddock Wood yesterday. I bought three plastic dinosaurs, four plastic sea creatures (more or less life-size), a tin full of plastic animals, a box full of plastic ponies and their riders and four die cast metal cars. All for the grandchildren and great nephews you understand (cough).

Last time I looked Nick Clegg was still leader of the Lib Dems. I can't think why. 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Nick Clegg is arguably the most unpopular man in British politics today- and that's not going to change. It's probably too late for the Lib Dems to regroup before the next election but they could make a start. As for his successor the obvious person is Vince Cable, who- for reasons that escape me- is still liked.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Clegg needs to go. I was never convinced by him - and he didn't get my vote in the leadership election - but neither am I all that impressed by Cable, whose chief claim to fame is that he noticed the Jenga-like precariousness of world banking ahead of the actual collapse. A period in the political wilderness outside Westminster might do us some good. It's not as if the territory is unfamiliar.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't see the Lib Dems ever recovering with Clegg as their leader. He's just too badly damaged.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not arguing that Clegg should stay on - just that anyone who seriously wants the job might want to wait until they have some chance of keeping it for more than a year.

Of course, Vince Cable has done the job before on a caretaker basis, so he might accept it again. He won a lot of goodwill then, though mainly, as I recall, for saying the sort of things his party has turned its back on in 'government'. You reckon he's still liked? Not in this house, but what do I know?

It certainly makes his current position (in China and far away from all this unseemly infighting) look very interesting...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I take your point: the job's a poisoned chalice.

On the other hand it's going to remain poisoned until Clegg goes.