Lord Bonkers' Diary: Assuming the worst

I look out across Rutland Water in the twilight. Someone has lit a bonfire on one of the islands and is desperately waving his arms and shouting for rescue.

The telephone rings. It is someone from the Deputy Prime Minister’s office asking if I have seen Clegg.

“The last time I saw him he was swimming away from my boathouse and a baying mob of students and civil libertarians” I tell them. “I am afraid we must assume the worst.”

Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South-West 1906-10.

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• Telling The Truth
• Nick Clegg in the boathouse
• The students are revolting
• A particularly civil civil libertarian
• "I cannot tell a lie"