Clegg starts the excuses for the local election results

Nick Clegg is getting his excuses in early blaming the lack of unpopularity of the other parties for the likely Lib Dem failure on Thursday in the local elections. He puts it as a lack of an Iraq factor ... something easy for the Lib Dems to oppose at no cost to themselves and win lots of votes.

He should be grateful that Gordon Brown is doing so badly right now - making him look at least adequate by comparison.

Clegg tries the "no memory of" ploy to deny having been a signed up Tory

Nick Clegg is now squirming over the evidence that he was a paid up member of the Conservatives at University. He's reported by the Yorkshire post saying that he has "no memory" of having been a member and couldn't be expected to remember every society he signed up for. ( Though he has a better idea of how many women he's slept with apparently ).

I guess as an atheist he feels no need for honesty ( which certainly wouldn't help in leading the Lib Dems anyway. ).

Clegg was a Tory

And Greg Hands has the evidence here..... ( He can't be all that bad then eh ? )