In a bewildering interview with Jeremy Paxman last night, Vince Cable produced a less than coherent explanation as to what the point of the tuition fees apology was. Cable, normally as solid as a rock, got so confused he called his leader, ‘Nick Pledge’, as Jeremy Paxman gave him a kinder, but equally effective, time as Chloë Smith. Many on my Twitter thought that this was a strategic mistake for Nick Pledge to make such an offering, but I suppose it acts as a useful decoy for the Party Conference. This takes the heat out of talk about his personal poll ratings (much worse than Ed Miliband’s, who is not that popular himself), or the privatisation of the NHS.

Here anyway is a helpful video to explain Nick Pledge’s apology once you get rid of the spin.

Also here is a graphic from ‘Jamie The Troublemaker II’, using the technique of ‘labourphotoshopping’, a method used by Labour armchair activists to make quick mass media in the name of parody (or legal defense of parody rather.)