I think I must be the only one here who possibly has a teeny-weeny tad of sympathy for the young Right Honourable Nicholas ... 
... he clearly forgot that sly old practitioner Harold MacMillan's wonderfully honest and truthful assessment of the main obstacle to political achievement ... 'events, dear boy, events ... '.
Okay, he made that silly, pie-in-the-sky promise before the election like politicians of all parties do and, being in the additional comfortable position of the Lib Dems never actually having a cat-in-hell's chance of gaining power (or so he thought), poor Cleggie had simply forgotten that he might well have to share power after the election, and many previous promises would then automatically become null and void due to wholly changed circumstances.
Clegg's now infamous promise reminds me of those shops which advertise goods at prices well below the competition but on checking they never seem to have any stock. That easy trick to entice customers into the fold is as old as the hills!
He has only himself to blame, of course, so maybe my little bit of sympathy is misplaced, but any political naivety on his part is more than matched by those who apparently believed every word of his cloud-cuckoo-land promise in the first place.
... he clearly forgot that sly old practitioner Harold MacMillan's wonderfully honest and truthful assessment of the main obstacle to political achievement ... 'events, dear boy, events ... '.Okay, he made that silly, pie-in-the-sky promise before the election like politicians of all parties do and, being in the additional comfortable position of the Lib Dems never actually having a cat-in-hell's chance of gaining power (or so he thought), poor Cleggie had simply forgotten that he might well have to share power after the election, and many previous promises would then automatically become null and void due to wholly changed circumstances.
Clegg's now infamous promise reminds me of those shops which advertise goods at prices well below the competition but on checking they never seem to have any stock. That easy trick to entice customers into the fold is as old as the hills!
He has only himself to blame, of course, so maybe my little bit of sympathy is misplaced, but any political naivety on his part is more than matched by those who apparently believed every word of his cloud-cuckoo-land promise in the first place.
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