Got him.

Shadow Justice Secretary, Jack Straw did pretty as a stand-in for the opposition at PMQs on Wednesday. He focussed much of his questions on the idiotic decision by school bully Osbourne to pull a vital loan for Sheffield Forgemasters, one of only two companies in the world to produce specialist equipment for nuclear power stations.

Besides being a symptomatic example of 80s style false economy from the Tories, the company is located in Clegg's constituency so was also exposing him to acute political embarrassment. The South Yorkshire press are really after him and with good reason.

But Clegg as DPM did quite well too. I mean 'well' in the sense he dodged every question and batted back the same old guff about Liam Byrne's joke note about no money being left. At the final exchange, little Nicky forgot where he was for a moment and felt emboldened to kick out at Straw's role as Foreign Sec in the Iraq invasion. "Perhaps one day he will account for his role in the most disastrous decision of all: the illegal invasion of Iraq."

Illegal, you say. Neither the current Foreign Secretary nor Defence Secretary has suggested as such, let alone Dave. No.10 press office found this quite a tough one to square with spin and suggested when the DPM speaks on such matters it is his "long-held" and "personal" view. Sir George Young, Speaker of the House continued this drivel when told the House, "It is not unprecedented for Ministers speaking at this dispatch box...to make their personal views known."

Claptrap, said the increasingly busy Speaker Bercow. It seems astonishing senior Parliamentary figures need to be reminded of the basics of House convention. At the Dispatch box, you speak as a Minister of the Government and represent Government views alone.

Now it would seem the wooliness of the Coalition on Parliament is the least of their problems. One of Forgemasters main rivals, businessman Andrew Cook, had lobbied for the loan to be withdrawn. It would seem it would have prevented Cook from "investing" in Forgemasters which sounds rather like a takeover bid. His other role as one of the Tory party's main donors introduces this bunch of amateurs to a new yet familiar charge: sleaze.