Have you been Walter
Newsnight on BBC2 last night was cause for a titter or two. Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable being quizzed by Jeremy Paxman regarding his parties' pre-election promises of no increase in student tuition fees saw him calling Deputy Prime Minister Nick Pledge instead of Nick Clegg.
It unfolded in the programme item that the pledges made by twister Nick Clegg not to increase student fees were a mistake. As in sycophant Clegg had apologised via a sort of politico-surreal broadcast that the Lib Dems had 'promised things his party could not deliver'.
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Vince Cable.Talk about type casting. In Nearest and Dearest Walter, the ever silent elder husband of Lily, spent most of his time doddering to and from the toilet, or sitting extremely quietly in the Pledge's front room drinking tea. Image: Flickr
It's almost a new twist on getting out of what politicians promise before an election and what they actually dispense.
Clegg though, reminded more of Nellie Pledge (Hilda Baker) and Cable, Walter Tattershall (played by Edward Malin) in the dated comedy show 'Nearest and Dearest'.
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Cable got his lines crossed and looked visibly shaken throughout the Newsnight scene as he mumbled his way around the fact of whether he knew his party could not/would not keep student fees to a minimum.
In fact, when Cable did call Clegg 'Pledge' the audience (now used to these pair of hilarious bumbling nitwits) half expected the Deputy Prime Minister to enter the stage delivering the classic line: 'Have you been Walter'.
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