If you can judge a party’s mood by the number of bad jokes it tells, then the
Liberal Democrats are in better form than last year. Their rally to open conference was characterised by a string of appalling gags. George Osborne was a particular target with both Don Foster and
Sarah Teather trying to raise a laugh at his expense. However, several of Teather’s jokes, which moved into real bad taste territory, fell totally flat.
The main speech of the rally, though, was Nick Clegg’s. Clegg, who was welcomed with a standing ovation, made his pitch that the party was governing from the centre, for the whole country. He ran through the usual list of Lib Dem accomplishments in office, pointing out that this wasn’t bad “considering we only have five Cabinet ministers, or six if you include Ken Clarke”.
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