Eating crow - Nick Clegg isn't an arsehole

In an interview published in the Guardian (!), the LiDem leader said the following:

I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full stop. The natural inclination of government is to hoard power and information; to accrue power to itself in the name of the public good.

He goes on to condemn the Blair regime's assault on civil liberties in the strongest terms:

It was the outright derision towards the criminal justice system… and extreme disdain for due process. For Blair the criminal justice system was an impediment to keeping people safe.

Last April I dared to hope that if the LibDems held the balance of power, it might do more than any other electoral outcome to restore the civil liberties raped by the Labourite pukes. I wrote: "on the principle of deeds, not words, the solid Lib Dem vote against all of the [authoritarian Labour legislation] makes them the party to vote for if you give a damn about civil liberties".
 
They have come though on civil liberties with the Protection of Freedoms Bill, published last Friday. Don't take back a word I've written about old prune-face and other LibDem ministers, but gotta eat a crow on this one.

Shame they are such fools on AGW and the EU.