"Who liked what?" I asked.
"'Wailing Lad' Clegg, of course! On Friday, he said that 'Boy David' Cameron had no alternative but to use his veto - now he's up the pole about it."
Arturo was right, of course. 'Wailing Lad' Clegg who has been looking increasingly glum over the last few weeks has disappeared completely, today! Maybe, he was spirited away back to Brussels, his natural home. Why do I say he 'disappeared'? Well, today, our PM, Cameron was in the House of Commons giving an account of his so-called European negotiations! His deputy, 'Wailing Lad' was not to be seen. There were cries from the less than sympathetic MPs of:
Where's Nick?
'Wailing Lad' was not even a spectre. He was akin to the 'Dead Parrot'; he was defunct! At least he was as far as the House of Commons was concerned.
Poor 'Wailing Lad', he is the Europhile supreme. Indeed, he is the most Euro-friendly leader there has been in the UK Parliament.
The dilemma was created for him in the early hours of Friday morning. At 4 am to be precise. 'Wailing Lad' received a phone call from 'Boy David' Cameron telling him that he had used the veto in the EU negotiations! At that hour of the morning when the chill cold of reality is kept at bay by the warmth of the duvet - 'Wailing Lad' was not in a fit state to take in what Cameron was saying! Who can blame him? Cameron can be incoherent at noon, let alone at 4 am!
By Sunday, however, one assumes the Spanish wife had shaken some degree of awareness into 'Wailing Lad's' delicate ear! By the time he sat down in front of Andrew Marr on his morning TV show, 'Wailing Lad' was in snarling mood! No longer had his leader, Cameron, been in the position of being 'unable to do anything else'! Now, Clegg described the result of the negotiations as being:
“bad for Britain”
Oh dear! What a change around! Not at all the words that 'Boy David' Cameron expected to hear!
Furthermore, once into his stride, 'Wailing Lad' seemingly could not stop - Arturo thinks that his mouth runs away with him and he self-applauds! A very dangerous tendency when you are the Deputy PM in a Coalition government!
In an article in the Daily Telegraph by Christopher Hope, Clegg's comments were described in the following way:
Mr Clegg criticised Conservative Eurosceptics, warning that to see the result as a “triumph” was “spectacularly misguided”. Mr Clegg complained that he had been warning “for weeks” that the summit could end in division because France “would not have shed a tear if Britain was pushed”.
He suggested that he would never have vetoed the treaty if he had been in Brussels, and blamed Tory Eurosceptics for forcing the Prime Minister’s hand.
Clegg was quoted again:
If I’d been at the summit, things would have been different. I’m not under the same constraints from my parliamentary party that clearly David Cameron is.
And yet again:
A Britain that leaves the EU will be considered irrelevant by Washington and will be a pygmy in the world when I want us to stand tall in the world
Christopher Hope added:
Mr Clegg said he would be doing “everything I can to ensure this setback does not become a permanent divide” with Europe.
Our old friend, give him a big hand (and I do mean BIG hand), 'Bagpuss' Pickles had to stick his oar in. Being the Cameron toady that he is, Pickles had to show his irritation with 'Wailing Lad' Clegg. Christopher Hope noted:
Eric Pickles, the Local Government Secretary, criticised Mr Clegg’s description of Eurosceptic Tories as being “spectacularly misguided”.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nick-clegg/8949920/Nick-Clegg-attacks-Camerons-EU-treaty-veto-as-bad-for-jobs-and-families.html
“We needed to ensure that there wouldn’t be a presumption in favour of any particular currency,” he said. “We needed to protect our financial institutions, and I think we feel more comfortable being able to do that as not part of a treaty renegotiation.”
Now it appears, 'Wailing Lad' Clegg is trying to justify his non-appearance in the Commons. He says it would have been a distraction from what the PM had to say!! If you believe that - you'll believe anything!
Arturo and I reckon he was in a quiet corner wailing to himself whilst waiting for a reassuring pat on the shoulder from 'Invincible' Cable.
The lyrics of
What a difference a day makesneed to be rewritten for the Clegg-Cameron saga.
Twenty-four little hours
What a difference a day makes
Twenty-four little hours
My lonely nights are still here, dear
Skies above are getting real stormy!
Arturo and I await the coming weeks with great interest!
'Bye' from us both
Have you had any feedback from actual politicos? Just hope they read it! Make them come to some sort of reality!
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