Reality soundbites.

摘要

If a week is a long time in politics then the last year must have seemed a tortured eternity for Nick Clegg. A year ago he enjoyed a sudden surge in popularity after the pre-election television debates. Commentators had started to predict the death of politics, as an increasing apathetic electorate got weary of spin, sleaze, and soundbites. Then he started to impress in those debates. He represented the reasonable voice of a new politics, calling for what was right for the country rather than scoring narrow political party points. For a brief mayfly summer the jaded electorate started to trust a politician again. Politics is dead, long live politics.