Call me Dave is way too shrewd a politician to get rid of Vince.
The tories are laughing the socks off at the moment. They’ve implimented some horrendous policies, yet are walking away scot free as all the blame is being heaped at the door of the lib dems. They need Vince and Clegg as fig-leaves. And now Cables stature is massively diminished, Dave can keep him on a much tighter leash.
And George Osborne must be utterly disbelieving of the easy ride he’s getting from both the press and the Labour party at the moment. He’s the architect of the cuts, yet he’s virtually invisible.
+1 Vince has been neutered and the last thing they want is him free to express more of his opinions on the backbenches. Apparently George described Clegg and Co as being “very brave” over their tuition fee vote. Brave 😀 yes thats one word for it George.