Saturday

It's Saturday with the usual weekend stuff to do, but also going on is the horse trading as Clegg tries to maximise his kingmaker role. So I come back from a cold, wet dog walk and put on the telly for a news update. Sky have Kay Burley outside the Houses of Parliament where a demonstration of a few hundred people are shouting for a 'fair vote'. It seems to have been organised by a group called 38 Degrees who were claiming to be about Proportional Representation. Primarily though, it is run by Climate Change believers. One of the 'organisers' is brought forward and turns out (not that the reporter realised) to be Billy Bragg. He mentioned PR then moved on to his (unsurprising) main point, which is that Labour should stay in power. Every time I see these people jumping up and down screaming when democracy goes against them I feel really gladdened. Billy Bragg and his ilk love democracy when it delivers what they want. They have the same mindset as the totalitarian EU; you can vote, but only if you get the answer right!

Now Nick Clegg has come out to address the crowd and receive a petition. He is loving it and he is being mugged. You have to give it to the activists, they certainly know when a vain politician will support what he thinks is allied to his politics. These people want the ability to channel more of their lunatic views from the far left into politics. Just another reason seeing the end of Labour is SO important, these are their people.