There’s a whiff of insurrection in the air

Nick Clegg has a piece in today’s Telegraph in which he writes:

The fuel protests hammer home a clear message. After the 10p tax rebellion, the local elections, and the Crewe by-election, no one can doubt the mood of the country any more. There is insurrection in the air. The British people are ready for change and they don’t believe Labour can deliver it.

So the next big question is: what kind of change do people want? And which opposition party can make it happen?

The Conservatives have painted an image of a brave new world, where the sun shines and David Cameron charms the birds out of the trees. The Cameroons have started to believe their own hype: insisting on their right to enter Number 10 without working out what they’d do once the door closed behind them.

Their strategy is simple enough: why bother choosing policies when the Government is shooting itself in the foot? Cameron’s speech on tax last week was a case in point: he made a virtue of the fact that he will make no further specific commitments on public spending or tax. They are elevating policy evasion to an art form.

Nick then goes on to talk about the specific Liberal Democrat policy commitments, as you can read in the full piece.

P.S. If you decide to wade through the comments, good luck 🙂 Though you’ll be rewarding with gems such as the person who says he hasn’t read Nick’s piece but still complains about its contents and also the person who thinks that the Liberal Democrats are mad for believing that cars emit pollution.

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  • Isn’t this the same Torygraph website that’s getting rightly slammed for giving Nazis like Barnbrook the oxygen of publicity?

    (And, by the looks of it, his supporters on the comments section)

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