InVinceCable We Trust

The New York Times published a rather splendid profile of Vince Cable yesterday: “The Rumpled Sage“. It’s worth a read.

It starts with this:

An unlikely character, bald and blunt, a “good bloke” in native parlance, has emerged as a pivotal figure in Britain’s May election, at once the country’s most popular politician and a possible chancellor of the Exchequer in the plausible event of a hung Parliament.

And it ends with this:

Cable’s got something going on. Whether it’s enough to lift the Liberal Democrats from their 63 seats is unclear. But a hung Parliament, in which neither Labour nor the Tories can form a government, is more likely than in any recent election. That could put Cable in a position of power, about as good an outcome as I can imagine.

And the stuff in between is cracking. Spread the word.