Daily Telegraph tries to destabilise Coalition

So the Daily Telegraph thinks we all should know what LibDem ministers really think of their Conservative colleagues in the Coalition government. Did we not think they might find it hard going? Blimey, if I was in there with LibDems I might have said a few unchoice and unguarded things. However, I'd far rather LibDems than being in there with any of Prissimiliband's bunch of political losers.

It is not up to newspapers to try to bring down governments. That is up to the electorate. But what we don't need now is a phoney election with the opposition arrogantly suggesting that they would do much different. It would be a complete waste of time.

By the way, any chance of us hearing secret recordings of what Telegraph staff think of each other?

Vince Cable set up by Daily Telegraph "constituents"

I feel sorry for Vince Cable. He's been stitched up by some journalists from the Daily Telegraph. A bit of a mean trick, I'd say. Not really Telegraph stuff in the main. More Murdoch's minions' territory. No wonder they were always portrayed as pigs in Spitting Image. A bit unfair to pigs, I always thought.

So what if Vince Cable's got opinions. He's not said anything that outrageous. He hasn't leaked government secrets. He hasn't got a Russian mistress. He hasn't sexed up a dossier. He hasn't lied about foreigners. Not much to get bothered about really. Except the Daily Telegraph can't stand the Coalition. So why not have a go at Vince. Send some posh ferrets down to Twickenham and get the man singing like a canary. Well, in that they succeeded. But it doesn't make them look like decent people.

Sir Denis Thatcher's friend Bill Deedes used to be a bigwig at the Telegraph. If they were around today, I dare say they'd be shocked. "I say Bill, that Vince Cable chap's been done over by some of your pipsqueaks. I mean, he's a liberal wotsit, I know, but that's just not cricket. A bit below the belt, if you get my drift!"