Lib Dems: handbags at noon

Question Time on Thursday was as dull as dishwater, with neither Calamity Clegg nor Huhne really distinguishing themselves from your average Lib Demmer. Which is probably not a bad thing if you're trying to be elected as their leader....

I have long wondered who the Lib Dems want to apppeal to. I sympathise with much of the Orange Book and actually think Clegg would be a decent Tory if he got some balls. That he trotted out the infamous Baroness Thatcher quote, "No such thing as society", shows the venality of so-called-liberals. This is a note to everyone: read the whole article please and quote it in context:

"I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

The message is all about the individual assuming repsonsibilty. Can anyone who genuinely subscribes to liberalism, in whatever form, not entirely agree with these sentiments?

That the Lib Dems are intrinsically bound to EU membership is also illiberal. In fact , I could go on forever about the contradictions of the Liberal Democrat party but I'm not that interested.

The heat was slightly turned up on Sunday's Politics Show with Jon Sopel producing a tasty morsel of a document from Huhne's campaign team entitled 'Calamity Clegg', which Guido is offering to download. I think it an entirely unedifying performance for both candidates. Clegg looked as if he spat his dummy out and Huhne doth protest too much, methinks.

No such thing as a clean fight, eh?