It is April Fools’ Day. It must be. There is no other possibity.

A mediocre footballer caled Joey Barton is offering the government advice (via the Deputy Prime Minister Nicky Boy Clegg) on how to run the country.

Yes, that’s Joey ‘Not Quite Good Enough’ footballer Barton. From a team called Queens Park Rangers which is currently winning…meh.

Not content with being a midfield general, art collector and Twitter’s answer to Nietzsche, the Scouser is now keen to give some advice to the coalition government.


Rangers spent Friday night in the Midlands ahead of today’s clash with Wolves and shared a hotel with a number of Lib Dems attending their party conference in Birmingham. And once he realised, Barton was his usual helpful self.

‘Just found out Lib Dems staying at are hotel tonight, if @vincecable and nick clegg need advice, ill be in lobby between 7-9pm,’ he tweeted.

It is not clear exactly which policy areas Barton could advise on, but as he has just signed a £4million-a-year contract with QPR, the deputy prime minister and business secretary may want a word with the former Newcastle United star about fat cat salaries.
Perhaps wisely, Mr Clegg decided against taking the midfielder up on his offer.

‘Was talking to a few Lib Dems in lobby before, unfortunately not Cleggy. Surprising jovial about my tweeting. #theyarestartingtolisten,’ Barton revealed on Saturday morning.

Clegg and his minority Liberal party (under 10% in most polls) from the speeches at their held-in-a-shoebox conference today – don’t understand what the word “coalition” means…so perhaps Joey Barton is their next best hope. They might currently be popping up a minority Conservative administration but they have a massively inflated view of their own importance. And no awareness of how disposable they are.

The ‘Liberals’ are a bunch of principle-free and power-crazed muppets; so one more moron funded dropped-on-his-head kid football playing supporter is pretty much par for the course for where the Lib Dems are now.