THE CHOICE at the next election is not between red and blue, the LibDem leader has said. It’s between yellow and blue.

Yes, of course it is, Nick. Now run off and play, and don’t get into any trouble…

The thing is, that’s what the LibDem leader always says in the run-up to a general election, or at least a variant of it. When it was clear Labour were going to win the last three elections, the LibDem leader claimed that the election would be a choice between them and Labour, that the Tories were irrelevant.

Charlie Kennedy

It’s a game the third party always has to play, I suppose; Nick Thingy has got to find ways of drawing attention to himself and his party. It’s just a pity he can’t come up with anything original.

But if, as conservativehome report, the LibDem strategy is to target Labour seats rather than Tory, that should tell swing voters all they need to know about Mick Clegg’s so-called “progressiveness”, namely that it’s the sort of progressiveness that will seek to shore up a right-wing Tory government if they get the chance to do so.