Mephostophiles and Faust spring to mind when I think of Mr Clegg these days. The shame for his party though is that so many of his good angels will now be tarred with his brush. Why are the backbenchers so silent? Can they not still be a voice of reason to bring about change in a metered way? I thought the backbenchers would have been our saviours. I was very wrong about that too :-(

There we have it. A new term. Faustian politics. Sell your soul to highest bidder for power and to hell with consequences... quite literally!

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