Hilarious how Clegg has just unearthed his social conscience.
Danny Alexander is a wholly unappealing MP.

I couldn't believe him dissing the Tories over the EU referendum plans on TV this morning, based on them saying "it will happen some day" against his plan of "it will happen when there's a change to an EU treaty" (so effectively, someday). Does he think it makes him sound better and cleverer?

The only way he's going to restore any credibility, and it's a long shot, is for him and his party to walk away from the coalition now and vote against everything (within reason) so the Tories can't govern effectively for 6 months or so.

The longer he stays in bed with them, the worse the situation will get for the country as there'll be pre election fights all over, and unless he and they show some backbone, they'll get wiped out in May.

And the less said about Alexander the better.

Uncle Vince is alive and well.

rlit's time Wince, I'll pay for the air farerl

I haven't had a mainstream business since Vince was pulled out of the lucky dip as Business Secretary so I'm not up to speed with what he has done for businesses in his term of office but judging by his comment that the banks are still not doing enough for small businesses and that finance is still hard to source for those small businesses then I'd guess that he hasn't done that much at all really - it was the first and foremost burning issue to be solved in 2010 and banks were financed and refinanced on the proviso that they would oil the wheels of small industry - sounds like they didn't do enough oiling for Vince's liking so he's still moaning about it five years later - five years is a bloody long time for a small business to trip and stagger through month-by-month without the right finance in place.