So little Mr. Clegg thinks he is going to be PM does he?

Or at the very least to call the shots in a Tory-led administration....for the idea that he might prop up McStalin in office long after even the Labour Party have given him up for dead is to live in an unconscionable Absurdistan.

One of the shots he will be minded to call is on the EU. Cameron has, of course, already taken the stringing knife to both of his hamstrings by recalling Ken Clarke to his front-bench team where the latter merely has to raise an eyebrow to quash any incipient criticism of the EU. But just in case this needs reinforcing, in a Tory-Lib Dumb coalition Clegg would be able to enforce a pro-EU position out of all proportion to his party's popularity at European elections when the focus is on the EU's role in UK law-making.

Just for the record Clegg, through whose veins precious little British blood flows, and who was the consummate insider as an MEP between 1999 and 2004 (his foreign background means that he can talk about the lack of a future for Belgium as a nation state to the Flemings in Vlaams and the Walloons in French), is the most pro-EU leader of one of the Old Collaborationist Parties we have ever had. Even that old traitor Edward Heath would have blushed to suggest some of the things that the Lb Dumbs say about the EU and that is saying something.

Yet when that focus of the British people is upon European issues at European election time, his party's stance is roundly rejected time after time after time.

In 1989 they were down to 6% of the vote, humiliatingly beaten into fourth by the Greens. In 1994, in the midst of the sorriest apology for a Tory government we have ever had, they reached the giddy heights of 17%. In 1999, when Cleggie got in, they slumped back to 12.66%, as striking a rejection of Lib Dumb Europhilia as you could wish for.

In 2004, by which time Clegg had his sights on being an MP (the desire to be PM having not yet occurred to him), the Lib Dumbs were shoved down into fourth place, with just on 14.9% of the vote, by UKIP who got 16.1%. Bit of a pattern emerging here?

Why, yes.... In 2009, under little Clegg's brilliant Euro Luvvie Leadership, the Lib Dumbs were shoved back down to fourth again, this time behind Labour with the rampant UKIP in second. UKIP got 16.5% to the Lib Dumbs 13.7%.

So the British people have got it figured out and all credit to them for doing so.

Yet here, if the BBC are right (and they tend to think they are: see here for a, currently, Cameron and Tory-free news page for the election), Clegg is poised to sweep the nation. Thus he may end up in a Tory-Lib Dumb coalition. This will be puzzling to that rather large section of the British public which has increasingly voted for Eurosceptic candidates and policies whenever it can.

And what then happens if Cameron, who on matters European is devoid of both courage and trustworthiness, tries to do anything mildly Eurosceptic?

Clegg, of course, would have the whip hand in those circumstances and the Europhiliac Lib Dem tail would be wagging the (allegedly) Eurosceptic dog, notwithstanding the consistent and thorough rejection of their EU stance by the British People at no less than five elections. Not exactly very liberal or very democratic, is it?

This, if it should, the heavens forfend, come to pass, will prove interesting. The vast majority of incoming Tory candidates is said to be throughtly Eurosceptic (though their leaders have a way of diluting Tory Euroscepticism that makes most magicians look like rank amateurs). They are just going to love the Nick Clegg-Ken Clarke Europhilia Fest, aren't they?

There is no mention in the mainstream media of this little conundrum. No surprise there, of course. But the idea that the lid on that particular simmering pot can be kept on for the duration of a whole Parliament is absurd. At that moment UKIP may find itself with some rather good prospects.

As for the Liberal Democrats here in Brussels, they will sail blithely on come what may. One might ask what they will do if a Tory-Lib Dem Cabinet decided to veto some major piece of EU business.

Well, I have had the infinite pleasure of studying voting lists. And I can bring you this information: Lib Dems always vote; all Lib Dems always vote. And all Lib Dems always vote for more Europe, lots more Europe.

If it happens, then that particular moment will be a very interesting one for the right of the Tory party. And rest assured that we here in UKIP will bring you immediate news of just such a vote as soon as it happens.

Which could be interesting.........

John Locke


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