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Paddy McGuffin: Political prima donnas in denial
Proof that the Lib Dems couldn't prove a booze-up in a brewery

It has been an oft-espoused theory that the Lib Dems couldn't organise a booze-up in a brewery and now we have proof positive.

Not only did they manage to get their posteriors comprehensively handed to them in not just one but two polls, but now their attempts to cast off the albatross round their necks has turned into a self-inflicted decapitation.

How rubbish do you have to be to fail to oust Nick Clegg?

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