Cleggy signals the victory of the political class

So Nick Clegg ran out the winner beating Huhne to the leadership of the Lib Dems by a few hundred votes. Did you see his victory speech zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

The really interesting thing about Clegg's victory (apart from the fact that he must be the first leader of a major party to be openly atheist) is that now all 3 parties have professional politicians as leaders.

Cameron is a political advisor and press man, Clegg an advisor and ex MEP, and Brown has been in politics since his teens with a brief stint as a journo.

I think it is actually rather sad. The people in charge may well be very bright and capable but they have never had what I would call a 'proper' job. They have never had to run anything - they have zero business experience and limited horizons outside of Westminster.

Career politicians are a bad bad thing.

ps - there have to be lots of jokes about Cleggy & Compo