"I always thought it was better, in politics," Nick Clegg told the Liberal Democrat conference in his leader's speech, "to tell people about the things you've achieved not just the things you've stopped."
That was, of course, little more than a preamble to a long list of Conservative policy proposals he wanted to the party to take credit for stopping, on those occasions when "compromise and agreement isn't possible and you just have to say no."
Here - in Clegg's words - are the full 16:
• Inheritance tax cuts for millionaires
• Bringing back O-levels
• A two-tier education system
• Profit-making in state schools
• New childcare ratios
• Firing workers at will, without any reasons given
• Regional pay penalising public sector workers in the north
• Scrapping housing benefit for young people
• Ditching the Human Rights Act
• Weakening the protections in the Equalities Act
• Closing down the debate on Trident
• Parliamentary boundary changes
• Scrapping Natural England
• Hold back green energy
• Stopping geography teachers teaching children about how we can tackle climate change
• The snoopers' charter (draft communications data bill)
And in the interests of balance, here are a few policies or policy proposals that Clegg didn't mention …
• Increasing university tuition fees
• The spare room subsidy (better known as the bedroom tax)
• Abolishing the 50p tax rate for high earners
• Raising VAT to 20%
