So the Liberal Democrats are having their Party Conference in Bournemouth and what’s been the overriding impression? Savage cuts.

How have we got to a point where all the major parties try to win votes by boasting who’s going to take most things away? Nick Clegg brags that the Liberals’ cuts will be “savage”, as if he’s taken lessons from Ray Winstone on coming over hard, and his conference speech went: “Now watch my boat race and listen. If I see anyfing that can be cut – I’m ‘aving it. Know what this is? It’s a dialysis machine. I’ve gone down the hospice, seen this ol’ geyser, bop bop bop bop, done ‘im, out with the ol’ plug and wallop. Now it’s out the national debt, ‘cos I’m Savage Clegg.” Mark Steel.

If the liberal’s are different what’s stopping them pointing out

That in the period in which this vast debt was created, while some layers of society got a bit worse off and some got a bit better off, it was the richest one per cent whose wealth grew to an unprecedentedly colossal scale. Mark Steel.

And shouldn’t we be making the richest one percent pay something back – because it’s the only solution that makes any sense – still Clegg doesn’t believe there are any votes in that view – I don’t see why. Still I’ve never liked the Lid Dems they are too much of franchising operation, buy which I mean the party will locally appear to be Tory like or Labour like depending on which will get them the most votes.