Martin Sweeps the Clegg

Poor Nick Clegg. He’s been working up to this moment all week, you know, and just when he’s building up a head of morally indignant steam, that cheeky chappy Michael Martin deflates the Lib Dem leader like a wind bag.

‘I havenae got much longer here’, the speaker must be thinking., ‘so I’ll get ma kecks while a can.’.

Not once, but twice, he breaks Clegg’s momentum for no apparent reason, rather undercutting the poor chap’s rhetoric.