Lib Dem numbers had dwindled after being over-run by a plague of UKIP councillors, known as 'Kippers'. These Kippers would burrow into any constituency, nesting in torn up strips of the Daily Mail and happily surviving on a diet of their leader's own excrement.
Unfortunately, in its weakened state, the toothless creature was unable to fend off an assault by a small, tenacious rodent - known as the 'Yellow-bellied Clegg'. The last sandal-wearing libertarians died peacefully in its Zoo, before being promoted to the House of Lords.
