As Chris Mullin says of Nick Clegg on the campaign trail: “fluent, utterly self-confident and easily the biggest charlatan of the lot” (Mullin, Diaries: Decline and Fall, 2010)
The Lib Dem VAT Bombshell
Nick Clegg: ‘I’ll turn if you want to, you’re not for turning.’
Behold! Lib Dem statecraft at work.
And the band played on.
Clegg at his best….U turn!
Failcraft fail codes: Promise to not break promises while going on to break the promises you did make. Nick Clegg demonstrates how to go about failcrafting.
Lib Dem failcraft: the art of breaking promises and losing all necessary degree of any competence to stay in office.
— Anon
The art of winning elections and achieving some necessary degree of governing competence in office.
— (Bulpitt, 1986:21)
