So just like those two Con men Dave and Nick at ten Downing Street, Mike Ashley and Derek Llambias have decided Newcastle's salvation lies in a five-year plan.
To be fair to the much-maligned Magpies they did dream up their distinctly unoriginal scheme fully 48 hours before those new bosom buddies Cameron and Clegg decided to climb into bed together until May 2015.
And at least, unlike the totally discredited Clegg, they didn't flaunt themselves around like hard-up harlots desperately seeking the highest bidder before kicking their own supporters in the bollards.
Messrs Ashley and Llambias announced their own coalition of austerity for the Toon Army by declaring they will take their place in the Premier League without spending on new players.
Their flimsy survival plan it seems is based on free transfer signings and promoting promising Academy players.
It is what departed Prime Minister Gordon Brown fondly called prudence.
I hope for the sake of those magnificent Newcastle fans it works, but it is, undoubtedly, a high-risk strategy.
Quite why they would want to go public with such a depressing revelation puzzles me. I can see absolutely no reason or benefit for it other than to dampen expectations on Tyneside.
Well if that was the intent, then it has certainly worked. Euphoria has been transformed into exasperation before May is even out.
But, unlike the transparently spurious claims of Cameron and Clegg to represent the "new politics", at least Ashley and Llambias have displayed some old-fashioned, if highly-unpopular candour.
What they have done is far less reprehensible than the unprincipled horse-trading that inflicted Cameron's warning of a "Labour job tax" on the entire working population of Britain and let off the bosses Scot-free.
Typical Tory tactics that favour the rich and privileged and are now aided and abetted by Clegg and his Liberal Democrats.
Nothing Ashley and Llambias have said is as remotely hypocritical as Clegg's pre-election assertion that Cameron had aligned himself with homophobes and anti-Semites before cosying up to his old enemy in number ten.
Somehow I think the Ashley-Llambias alliance - reviled as it might be on Tyneside- is more sustainable than our new political bedfellows.
