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Cleggmania: what were the highs? what were the lows?

Highs: 2,000 people outside Sheffield Town Hall, just to see him pass by; the ‘I agree with Nick’ t-shirts; being carried for eight miles by a human wave of singing children; the woman who had been saving her hair to make a statue of Ghandi, who used it to make one of Clegg instead; the Taliban surrendering because ‘We agree with Nick!’

Lows: people putting shit through his letterbox; people burning his effigy; people pissing on his effigy, then burning it; people pissing on his effigy, then burning it, then pissing on it again, then putting it through his letterbox; the petition by jailed paedophiles saying he was ‘much worse’ than them; being kidnapped by a private army who made him write ‘I am a tosser’ 100 times on a piece of paper before revealing they were hired by his dad…