SLEAZE 1

So David Laws has had to resign.

And Sleaze rears it's ugly head in the Houses of Parliament once again.

Laws, it seems, wrongly claimed (ie. stole) £40,000 of taxpayers money.

It appears that he had been fiddling expenses - illegally claiming rent for his partners flat - for NINE years.

So, no blip, then.

A calculated and delberate fiddle.


nb: Funny how the press are calling this thief "a man of integrity". That's not what they call people who fiddle a few pounds on the dole... Still, who are we to call the rich and powerful into question?

THE PENNY HASN'T DROPPED

That bastion of rabidity, home to the most incoherent drivel, The Daily Mail today bawls out - once again - that Yellow Dave and the Libservatives are forcing Blue Dave and the Conservatives to back down on manifesto pledges.

You can read the rant here.

Clearly there is one thing that The Daily Mail has not yet grasped.

I'll spell it out for them.

THE BLUE PARTY DID NOT WIN THE ELECTION.

Which is why there was a need for a coalition.

And why there is a need for compromise.

Sadly, the Mail also shows just why the coalition is doomed to fail.

Because rags like the Mail - and the usual suspects who nod along with everything it shouts - just don't grasp the basics of the word compromise.

Cameron tells the BBC that Clegg is "IN" - but is he?

Interviewed by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Blue Dave has already had to emphasise that Clegg (a.k.a. Yellow Dave) is "part of the inner core".

Honest.

Dave is one of us.

Really?

Of course he isn't.

But it wouldn't do to admit this publicly.

You can read a bit of the article here

But perhaps the most interesting thing is not the insistence that the Libservatives are in the inner core - which with just a scattering of irrelevant cabinet posts they clearly are not - but Cameron's claim to be a Liberal Conservative.

Hmm... Will that go down well with the likes of Norman Terrier?

Are the usual barking mad right wing suspects going to want to hear that their new bloo PM is actually a Liberal at heart?

I suspect not.

It may only be the most distant rumble of thunder at the moment, but the storm clouds will definitely be appearing on the horizon within the next few weeks.

The question is, which storm will break first?