I see a number of references on Twitter to a speech Cleggy made at a debate last year before the EURef, in which (expecting to win it) he likened some of his fellow speakers (such as Dave's friend St Nige) to those Japanese WW2 soldiers who refused to give up in 1945 and tried to fight on in the jungles for decades.
Andrew Neil apparently put the boot in about that (haven't seen that yet), but Cleggy & co don't do irony (or, indeed, self awareness).
And I can just see Dave and Dennis, to name but two, dressed in ragged and faded Japanese WW2 uniforms, shouting out "Banzai!" and bowing down to Emperor Jean-Claude.