Vince challenges for leadership

Hi! I'm a lib dem! I might introduce myself properly at a later date. Right now, I'm just going to get down to it:

On a recent edition of Armando Iannucci's frequently hilarious Charm Offensive, Armando claimed that the clearest evidence that David Miliband was making a blatant challenge for the leadership of his party was that he had publicly dropped T's in a Radio 4 interview, aping Tony Blair's faux-estuary accent.

Listening to Vince Cable's warmly received speech at conference on Monday morning, I realised he was doing exactly the same thing, replacing T's at the ends of words with glottle stops.

...New Labour incubated a culture of financial gambling with other peoples' money which has contributed to the collapse of trust in financial institutions. It also bred a dangerous dependence on de'.

You will have heard me, every year, warning that British families were acquiring unsustainable levels of de'. Most of this de' was secured against the illusory ‘wealth' of rising, vastly inflated property prices. People have been encouraged to believe they would rise for ever and ever.

Those of us who warned of the dangers were initially treated as eccentric, then as scaremongers and prophets of doom. But we were righ'.

How will Clegg respond to this outright insubordination?