VINCE CABLE - ARROGANT AND OFFENSIVE.

Vince Cable is not only a bitter old man whose time has passed, he's also an arrogant and offensive one.

At the Spring Conference f his much-diminished party, the Liberal Democrats, Cable characterised those who voted to leave the European Union as being "driven by nostalgia", presumably meaning rather that than any good sense.

He is reported to have said that many older people voted to leave the EU because they longed for a world in which "passports were blue, faces were white and the map was coloured imperial pink". His comments were apparently his own logical conclusion to the fact that while many older people voted to leave, many younger ones voted to remain.

Cable gives no credit to older people for their greater experience, but characterises them as simply living in the past. He accepts the views of younger people, filled with enthusiasm and optimism but lacking experience and any real understanding. In truth, he's an old man pandering to the young in the hopes of gaining their support for him and his causes.

I can't say why others voted to leave the EU, though I doubt very much that the colour of passports or maps had much to do with it. Undoubtedly, the vast influx of immigrants did have some bearing with some people but the principle reason why I voted to leave was to get away from the overbearing, bureaucratic, anti-democratic, unaccountable sink of corruption that is the European Union. Cable, of course, loves all these characteristics, being a life-long, left wing academic and politician for whom the will of the people is no more than a passing whim to be ignored whenever it doesn't accord with his own exalted point of view

Cable's words yesterday are rude and offensive, dismissing as they do a large proportion of the population as being jingoistic and racist. He is a man driven by a desire to achieve his own ends at any cost and he clearly believes himself to be far superior to the rest of us in terms of understanding, knowledge and intellect. How he can believe this when he is nothing more than the leader of the rag-bag remains of a once great political party escapes me.

However clever he may think he is, he's actually nothing more than a nasty old man whose principle aim is, and always has been, to feather his own nest, with little thought for anyone else. Surely it's time for him to stop annoying, and offending, us with his particular brand of Euro-drivel.