“If you are hinting now that you are ready to sign up to a cosy deal with the Tories, you might as well shut up shop and be another Conservative Party, and be done with it”
- agony aunt Claire Rayner, accusing Nick Clegg of “flirting” with the Conservatives
First came ‘Change That Works For You. Building A Fairer Britain’ – without doubt one of the worst election slogans I have ever heard. It means nothing, it tells me nothing, it will inspire no-one and it’s basically the same as the other two parties.
Now we have Nick Clegg calling for a 10% tax on [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
As no-one in the media is really bothered what you are up to right now, I thought I would take you back 12 months to an article that you wrote for the Independent explaining why you thought that Britain should consider joining the Euro as it makes for fascinating and embarrassing reading in hindsight.
“I [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
In the modern political era, it is almost a given that policy announcements and speeches are leaked to the media way so that some interest can be drummed up in advance. It was therefore quite refreshing for you to spring a surprise attack on David Cameron this week, although – as we have [...]
“2009 was the year that politicians learned to both cower and swoon at the feet of Joanna Lumley. Personally, I have never encountered such a deadly combination of spell-binding charm and single-minded ruthlessness.”
- Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg on the Gurkha campaign
“I want to be Prime Minister.”
- the caption on the Christmas card sent by Labour Chief Whip Nick Brown, just below a photo of Nick Clegg dressed as the David Bowie alter ego Ziggy Stardust when he was 22. Clegg told The Sun: “Both myself and Nick Brown have good reason to be embarrassed. I posed for [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
No doubt you had in mind a dramatic, media-busting launch of your tax plans yesterday that would herald a resurgence in the polls. Sadly, what you have ended up with is your party running extremely hard just to stand still. It is clear that you have been forced to drastically alter your most infamous policy [...]
“Whichever party have the strongest mandate from the British people, it seems to me that they have the first right to try and govern, either on their own or with others.”
- Nick Clegg, who has finally made his mind up and declared that he will support whoever is the largest party in the event of [...]
Monday: Nick Clegg has called for the Queen’s Speech to be cancelled and replaced with emergency reforms to “clean up politics”. He said there was not enough time for most bills in it to become law before an election – and it was merely being used as a Labour manifesto. He went on accuse Labour of “hijacking” the [...]
“Only in a place as mad as Westminster can MPs make fat profits playing the property market with taxpayers’ money and get away with it.”
- Nick Clegg, responding to the letter he received from the Speaker John Bercow in which Bercow turned down his request to widen the scope of the audit of MPs expenses amid concerns [...]
“If we let it go on much longer, it just won’t happen.”
- the verdict of an insider in the negotiations over the proposed TV debates between the main party leaders. After only a few weeks of negotiations, David Cameron has rejected the idea of a series of debates between all three party leaders, according to [...]
Dear Clegg, Brown and Cameron,
There is something that I’ve been following throughout conference season this year and it’s not something that many people may have noticed: references to your families during party conference speeches. Interestingly, all three of you took different approaches to this controversial topic.
Let us begin with David Cameron, who made his conference speech [...]
Dear readers,
One of the unfortunate consequences of being a political nerd like myself is that sometimes you see things that other people don’t see. I suspect that many people switching on the TV to watch keynote speeches at party conferences or watching the highlights on the news don’t realise how much preparation, planning and discussions go into these speeches [...]
“Today’s Liberal Democrats are an Ikea party, cobbled together overnight on the bedroom floor and rarely upright in one place for more than a week. Vince Cable wants the banks bailed out by the government, but only sort of. Paddy Ashdown wants Afghanistan saved from the Taliban “if it can be done properly”. The party [...]
PRESS RELEASE 0902 – WEDNESDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER
The Liberal Democrats have become embroiled in a fierce row over airbrushing after a Conservative blogger accused them of ‘airbrushing’ photos of Nick Clegg during their 2009 party conference in Bournemouth. A.Tory, author of the ‘Letters From A Tory’ blog, has uncovered what he claims is “clear evidence of [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
What a hilarious show. Gaffe after gaffe after gaffe. First came the accusation that David Cameron was a “conman”, which everyone ignored. Then came talk of “savage cuts”, which you backtracked on yesterday. Then came the possibility of dropping your pledge to scrap tuition fees, which was quickly left to one side. Then [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
Much as you might have been boyed by one recent Euro election and General Election poll, I’d hate for you to think that it has anything to do with you as opposed to the continuing capitulation of Labour. The ICM poll for the Telegraph had you up five points on 25% and in second [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
Much as it would bring a warm fuzzy feeling to my heart to discuss interior designers, trouser presses, fluffy dusters, court summons and leather rocking chairs with you this morning, I feel that your inadequate showing at the launch of the Lib Dem MEP election campaign is much more instructive when it comes to [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
Today’s papers are reporting that you have privately authorised secret approaches to up to a dozen unhappy Blairites, trying to persuade them to join the Lib Dems instead of forming their own breakaway party, in a move that brings back memories of the split that led to the creation of the SDP in the [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
I felt a little queezy yesterday reading through the news reports on your closing speech to the Liberal Democrat spring conference. There were, I believe, two reasons for this: firstly, your segment was so full of ridiculous analogies that it was almost impossible to take seriously; and secondly, the bare-faced contradictions and ignorance [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
In the chamber of comedy that was PMQs yesterday, it was you who took time to draw attention to the terrible plight of two sisters in Sheffield whose father was given 25 life sentences on Tuesday for raping and abusing them over a period of thirty years. As with the case of Baby [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
It was on reading the ComRes poll yesterday that something rather amusing struck me. While Brown has been hailed a global hero (much to my annoyance) and Cameron has been fighting back with attacks on the Prime Minister’s judgement and record, it suddenly occured to me that you are nowhere to be seen. [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
You twat. I mean, honestly. Your whole conference has commanded a token amount of media attention and it’s only political geeks like myself who have bothered to try and find out what has been happening – and what a waste of time that was. Your final speech yesterday was a dire finale to [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
I’m not sure that this letter will reach you, seeing as you clearly live on a different planet to the rest of us. I cannot express in words how sick it makes me feel when the Prime Minister tells us how he ‘feels our pain’ and ‘understands our concerns’, because surely if he [...]
Dear Nick Clegg,
It never fails to amaze me how lightly the Lib Dems get away with their lack of respectable policies. People say that the Conservatives need to focus more on policy, yet the Lib Dems have been so quiet that no-one ever seems sure what their purpose is as a party. Your pledges on [...]
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