Wheels begin to fall off LibDem

Well, that didn't take long:

Nick Clegg was forced on to the defensive last night over his expenses and lobbying activities.

The Lib Dem leader regularly claimed more than Gordon Brown and David Cameron and charged the taxpayer for three kitchen upgrades in six months.

He also billed for foreign phone calls, napkins, cake tins and for hundreds of pounds to prune his fruit trees.

Questioned over his expenses relating to his constituency property, he hit back, bizarrely saying: 'It's not my home, it's yours.'

I still think the three British party leaders are peas in a pod and that Britain is in deep trouble no matter who wins the elections. But Mr. Clegg is particularly troubling. As a commenter at a Times of London story, "Nick Clegg nearly as popular as Winston Churchill," put it (via Don Surber):

With respect, the Americans posting that Clegg is our Obama, know very little about British politics. Clegg is a nice man, but prime ministerial he isn’t. A month ago on the BBC’s politics show he could barely answer a single question put to him. And look at his policies — Clegg wants the UK to join the Euro, He wants to let criminals out of prison, he wants to increase immigration and he wants to put up taxes on entrepreneurs and people who run businesses. Clegg and the LibDems are the last thing Britain needs at this moment in time. The crazy thing is, his policies were exactly the same the day before the debate — no one was claiming he was Churchill then. 90 minutes of TV coverage later and our dumbed-down X-factor electorate decide to vote for him. Absolute madness. The UK is in terminal decline.

Mr. Surber promptly added:

Nice man? Check.

Could barely answer a simple question? Check.

Wants to join EU? Check.

Wants to let criminals out? Check.

Wants to increase immigration? Check.

Wants to put up taxes on entrepreneurs and people who run businesses? Check.

I would say it was Disgruntled Yorkshireman who does not know Barack Obama very well.

(Sorry, Don, for lifting your post pretty much wholesale. Can't improve on perfection.)