Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Clegg is determined to regain popularity with an attack on the wealthy and the protection of children of the previliged elite.
He says that wealth inequality is widening and is much greater than income inequality with the bottom third households owning 3% of the nations wealth with the top third of households holding 75 % of the nations wealth.
He will target the unaccountable wealth,power and influence of media moguls,dodgy lobbyists corrupting our politics and irresponsible bankers.
He wants an ``Open Society``and a radical reform of the Lords.
Seems being unpopular and desperate makes you aware we are not all in this together.
His problem is his Coalition partners want these issues left as they are.It is thought by his colleagues that this rhetoric can only be delivered with Labour.Should be interesting how/if he achieves his new manifesto.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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In his early days in coalition Clegg found himself weathering the backlash of phenomenally upset voters. People who had put their trust in him were unashamedly jettisoned for the convenience of power. I had never seen anything quite like it. He swallowed the Tory mandate hook line and sinker with just the occasional token voiced concern. But the wave of disgust with Clegg grew and grew and eventually it really surprised and indeed shocked Clegg himself.
But he soldiered on...gazing wistfully into the painful distance everytime he appeared at Prime Ministers Questions in the House.
But the latest episode with the EU eurosceptic thing has brought about some movement from Clegg. Rather than be airbrushed out of life completely he has found his rattle...the rattle of a simple man..and he is using it.
His party is in no mans land, predicted by all pundits to be heading for a near wipeout at the next election, so he has to do something. The EU situation was a full blown humiliation for Clegg and the Libdems. Could they just sit there in total humiliation and take it...or would they fight back?
So, we have a fightback of sorts.
But when your opposition has nuclear weapons it is just huff and puff... he cant blow the house down, he cant call for an election as extinction is on the cards, he can only rattle the cage for the remaining time in Coalition and hope that the voters notice him.
Keith Sansum1
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Well there you go paulb
cleegy is as you say in no mans land
can huff and puff
but has been keeping the co olition going, and was the one that set it up.
as you say paulb cleggy is just doing a damage limitaion exercise now, trying to salvage a few seats
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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To his credit, Nick also called for an end to the present system of the upper house. This, and a few of the above mentioned (not his EU fiasco) are winning cards for whoever takes them up.
If the unelected upper house is vastly modified, it would be a sincere rattling at the Windsor Establishment. The idea of a golden coach rattling through the streets of London or a super-rich barge sailing down the Thames does not go down well for many a citizen nowadays.
In fact, Nick has indirectly challenged Mrs. you know who when he sounded off the other day at the upper house.
An unusual (from me) well done there, Nick
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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ALEXANDER;
Both of the main parties have tinkered with the house of lords, my issue with this is what do you replace it with?
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Another step back for Cleggy.Lib/Dems refuse to hand back £ 2.4 million of stolen money donated by Micheal Brown
who was arrested in the Dominican Republic having been on the run for several years.
Brown was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in his abscence for his £ 40 million fraud.
Brown`s victims are planning to take the Lib/Dems to court.
Clegg is a dead man walking. There is little he can do to offset the Faustian pact he made while ditching his principles and dumping the nations students.
Brian Dixon
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correct me if i'm wrong,so he has gone from being a wendy woolie to a hoodie in under 2 years.i wonder if dc has hugged a hoodie latley.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i reckon he is eagerly awaiting the opportunity to duck out of the job, the expression on his face whe he is in the commons indicates a desire to drop out of politics altogether.
if the coalition lasts the parliament i think he will then step down.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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If Clegg is not personally responsible for a scandal, there shouldn't really be any need for him to step down.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not so much a need as a desire alex.
as things stand only you and mrs clegg have anything nice to say about him, i believe that his dog is in two minds about him.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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i agree with bern
and you howard;
cleggy knows its only a matter of time before he is destroyed
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Cleggy has told Cameron to face down the 81 group of eurosceptics and tells him his sabre rattling veto was worthless.
He explained a veto stopped something and in actual fact it had stopped nothing.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Cleggy/Coalition,divided over Cameron`s plans on Scottish Independence...........continues to build up!!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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reg
you are beginning to sound like keith, the cobbled together government is here to stay for another 3 years and more.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Wellfare Reform Bill.
Cleggy`s come back is definitely on the slide to oblivion.Lord Ashdown and Lib/Dems puts Cleggy in isolation in his own
party.
Could be a good time for Cleggy to join the Conservative Party.He has a perfect CV of ``pledges and Promises``.......
.......should be an ideal candidate.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i think cleggy will drop out of politics altogether at the next election.
all credibility is ebbing away, i doubt if any other party would have him.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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howard;
how dare you say reg is owt like me lol
this cobbled together govt time is running outo many
it may well go the full term, not because the parties are all luvvy dovey
but more because the lib dems know as soon as they go to elections they will be out on there ear.
cleggy has missed so many opportunities to make a come back he's unlikely to smell the coffee as time is ticking away
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