a new job for Charlie

Literary critic:

His romance with the literary agent Georgina Capel during the late 1990s is said to have come to an abrupt end after she woke in the flat they shared to discover her soon-to-be-ex urinating over the only manuscript copy of Brian Keenan's An Evil Cradling.

Well, maybe he had to go. But if you’re staging a coup, isn’t it customary to get the successor lined up first? Given that they knew about Kennedy’s drinking – pretty much, anyway – it looks to me like Cameron stampeded them.

Now they keep wittering on about dynamic leadership, etc. What’s the point of that? No one’s going to pay any attention to a Lib Dem leader jumping around the place patting the little people on the head. Third party politics is about battlefield medicine. You just go about picking up the casualties, which Charlie did pretty successfully. Otherwise, you might as well get pissed.

Fools. Cameron invited them in a completely unsubtle way to tear themselves to pieces and that’s exactly what they did.