Kerre Woodham: Separated at birth?

Britain has a government. Two fresh-faced, well-scrubbed, well-heeled men forged a civilised alliance and now the Hardy Boys have taken over Britain.

Is it just me or do David Cameron and Nick Clegg look interchangeable?

In fact, add John Key to the line-up and it starts to look like we have a Stepford Wife-type assembly line churning out likeable, clean-living politicians ready to take over the Free World.

While I'm all for antiseptic inoffensiveness when it comes to political leaders, sometimes you need them to be forceful and testosterone-engorged.

Citizens will occasionally need to be taken by the scruff of the neck, deprived of all treats for the foreseeable future and bent over a table for a jolly good thrashing.

For all that these are public school boys, and probably no stranger to the whip, I wonder if Cameron and Clegg - and Key - are up to the task.