The civilising force at a stag do

Jonathan Freedland has a good piece in the Guardian today marking 100 days of the coalition government.

I particularly like this quote, from Tory Rick Nye, on the role/influence of the Lib Dems:

"It's like inviting your fiancee's brother to your stag weekend: it's inherently civilising. You're not going to have the strippers, you're not going to get blind drunk." To Nye, the Lib Dems are the fiancee's brother, forcing the Tories to be polite and behave themselves.

No one really wants to be that fiancee's brother, spoiling all the wildest fun, but for the bride's sake it's probably a good thing he's there...