Mad as a hatter..

In an extraordinarily delusional piece in today's Times entitled 'Lib Dems can't just leap into bed with Labour', Roy Hattersley lectures the Coalition partners with hubristic arrogance - no orange bookers, Danny Alexander will have to go, anyone who shook hands with a tory and even St. Vince of Teddington is suspect..

This really is patronising drivel. If Labour ever have the privilege to form a coalition with the Lib Dems, it will be because the British electorate wish it. They will need to embrace it with enthusiasm and make it work for all parties concerned. And that Mr Hattersley, will involve just a little humility..