Sketchup: The week in insults
In the Daily Mail Quentin Letts remarks on how quickly the Lib Dem leader has become attuned to the ever-growing press corps around him:
"What a big yellow sunflower Cleggy has become, rotating to the nearest bank of television crews."
The Guardian's Simon Hoggart says that the PM went all out when he spoke to nurses at their conference in Bournemouth:
"The nurses Gordon Brown was addressing must have felt as if they were being hosed down with maple syrup. And added treacle."
For the Independent, Simon Carr pays a visit to Somerton and Frome, the constituency where the Conservative candidate is Annunziata Rees-Mogg:
"The Tory candidate has a name that is visible from space."
Mr Carr was also at the Respect party's launch where he notes that George Galloway had little need for an amplifier to get his message across:
"What a voice he has, George Galloway. He's the Pavarotti of politics."
Simon Hoggart says that despite their best intentions, the assembled Oxford Brookes students who'd come to listen to Nick Clegg on Wednesday couldn't help but lose their initial enthusiam:
"He has a terrific gift for sedating people. If you were bitten by a snake and had to lie still until the serum arrived, he could save your life by telling you his thoughts on banking regulation."
Alex Stevenson, writing for Politics.co.uk, hazards a guess as to why Tory leader David Cameron was talking at such a pace when he met workers at a Coca-Cola factory in Wakefield:
"Cameron was speaking much faster than usual. Was he on a sugar high after falling into a giant vat of Coke? His claims were certainly getting more and more far-fetched."
Ahead of the third and final prime-ministerial TV debate the Times' Ann Treneman predicts what Mr Brown would not be mentioning:
"The man has had so many accidents he should be in A & E. The one thing I was sure he wasn't going to say was: 'I met this woman in Rochdale yesterday ...'"
