A NEW dawn ushers in the brave new world of push-me-pull-you politics.

“After you Mr Clegg.”

“No, no, I insist, Mr Cameron, after you.”

Perhaps Nick should have paraphrased Dr Doolittle: “If I could talk to the Tories, just imagine it, Chattin’ with a Tory in Toryspeak, Imagine talking to Mr Pickles, chatting with Teresa May, What a neat achievement it would be!

“And if you just stop to think of it, there’s no doubt of it, I would win a place in history, If I could walk with the Tories, Talk with the Tories, Grunt here squeak and squawk with the Tories, And they could squeak and squawk and speak and talk to me!”

But I suspect in reality this new Government may do little for equality, instead raising VAT to address the deficit – impoverishing the poorest.

Some good things, though. Mr Bayley’s defunct “New” Labour Government’s crazy ID cards, biometric passports, National Identity Register are all to be scrapped through a Great Repeal Bill.

Marvellous for civil liberty. Something Mr Bayley and his oppressive chums could never appreciate as issues of concern for the majority of freedom-loving British people.

T Scaife, Manor Drive, York.