The Lib Dem paramilitary wing
By Tony Grew @ayestotheright - 19th July 2011
Veteran Tory troublemaker Peter Bone amused MPs on all sides today with a slip of the tongue.
At foreign office questions he said that the French have been supplying weapons to the Libyan rebels.
Except he said Liberal rebels.
The idea of Bob Russell, Mike Hancock, Ming Campbell and Duncan Hames as freedom fighters certainly amused their colleagues.
Later Ming informed he House that "the Liberal rebels have not yet taken delivery of any weapons", but he admitted that the idea of fighting with a Kalashnikov in one hand and the alternative vote in the other "has its attractions".
Foreign secretary William Hague, clearly tickled by this interlude, suggested that if the Lib Dems had been heavily armed, their campaign for AV might have been more effective.
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