Nick Clegg may want to be prime minister (heh, heh) but Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams seems to have stamped her authority on the Bournemouth conference without saying a word. Or so it seems from the back-tracking by Vince ‘Slasher’ Cable as to whether he had called for a planned £13 billion military training college at St Athan to be dumped.
“I didn’t actually refer to it being scrapped at all”, said a clearly irritated Cable to reporters who had the ill-grace to suggest that the popular MP might possibly be as economical with the truth as he intended to be with the defence budget. But what else can you expect from journalists - especially after receiving an off-the-record briefing from one of Ms Williams little helpers?
The awkward denial was another cameo in what has been described elsewhere as a “occasionally traumatic” Lib Dem conference. Indeed, the general verdict is that the event was an exercise is stage-managed confusion with piecemeal policies that were un-picked by media and party activists before speakers left the podium and accompanied by sound-bites that had the impact of a dull thud on their electoral prospects.
Cue Labour in Brighton ... where they will be hoping that things can only get better.
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Best quote of the week is from Nick "Who is he?" Clegg, when he said the best way forward in Afghanistan is to invite them around for tea!!
Will it be Tetley or PG Tips?
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