Run Over

Poor Nick Clegg. In the coming hung Parliament, the coalition will be between Labour and the Tories, as quite routinely in local government, and as in Germany until fairly recently, both for the same reason.

Their overdue merger will follow, leading to the re-emergence of alternative, proper parties that stand for specific things, and those in tune with public opinion. So, not the Lib Dems, as a party, then.

Clegg expects to be asked whom he would support in a hung Parliament, so that he can appear clever and important by giving no answer. But in reality, no one is going to ask him the question, anyway. In which case, what is he for?