James Cleverly, the Deputy Leader of the Conservatives in the London Assembly, has said what we were all thinking and branded Simon Hughes, the loudmouth Lib Dem Deputy, a “dick” and a “fool” on his social media pages. In a blog post entitled “Oh do shut up Simon”, which was subsequently routed to Twitter (as seen below), Mr Cleverly succinctly ruined the tiresome and omnipresent game of “Simon says” developing over in Westminster over the past few weeks.

In the full blog post, Cleverly called Hughes’ idea of a Lib Dem Coalition veto “bone-headed”, concluding that “if Hughes feels it impossible to work with the Conservatives and his own front bench Lib Dem colleagues why not just bugger off to Labour and let the serious politicians get on with it. I agree, James, but unfortunately, Labour don’t want him.

Caroline Pidgeon, leader of the Liberal Democrats in the LA, dismissed the comments as “juvenile and offensive”. However in a later posting, James stood by his words, mustering the half-baked apology, “to be fair name calling is a bit childish.”