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(not satire – it’s Nick Clegg!)
Occasionally – very occasionally – there’s a really really really low point a politician hits when they go from being someone I usually deride to someone I actually start to feel a bit sorry for.
Congratulations Nick Clegg – you’ve just hit that rare low point.
After the disastrous Lib Dems results from the local elections yesterday Nick Clegg has actually gone on record as saying he thinks the Lib Dems are “doing well“.
Yes – he really did say that.
And even more bizarrely, he also said the Lib Dems are “still winning“.
You can read Clegg’s comments here – if you can bear to witness someone being in denial to the point of being seriously delusional:
I’m not going to quit, says Clegg
If he really does believe his party is doing well, am I the only one getting seriously concerned about Nick Clegg’s state of mind?
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Clegg.He is completely delusional
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Is his mind still in 2010?
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“Doing well” I don’t think those two words mean to him what they mean to everyone else!
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Reblogged this on Vox Political.
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Was Clegg out of his gourd when he gave that interview? If not, he really should seek professional help.
Maybe he’s been taking lessons from Ian Duncan Shit?
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I heard the same in Croydon on Friday morning from the ex leader of the Council, “delighted” to be re-elected.
He looked dishevelled and livid.
Did I feel sorry for him? No. I thought of all the people who suffered because of his lack of empathy and his disastrous efficiencies.
We stood against him in a blue area and lost but the Croydon Central MP had to write to residents to support the tory candidates which says something about our campaign.
It is a question of time: we will get it next time around.
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So sad to see Gladstone’s grand historic party – the first parliamentary opposition to the Conservatives – reduced to such a poor pass by a ‘leader’ who clearly finds himself happier as deputy within a cabinet of millionaires than defending the interests of the masses of ‘ordinary’ people, many of whom are now only surviving thanks to food banks. (The hair-dye may have been unwise, too…)
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Clegg is like an ex who still thinks his girlfriend is in love with him.
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Politics is the art of convincing the electorate that you are sincere, honest and on their side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUDjRZ30SNo&feature=kp
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
I’m not surprised Clegg’s still trying to talk up his party’s chances of doing well in the elections next year. He has to, otherwise it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. However, in this case Clegg also comes across as either delusional, or, on the other hand, massively condescending, believing that the British electorate are stupid. It’s also possible he’s both.
Weirdly, he’s even got some of his supporters to parrot this. There was one on Andrew Marr this morning, loudly proclaiming that no, Clegg shouldn’t resign. He took the Lib Dems into power. This was followed by the rhetorical question ‘What else could he do?’ Well, Mike’s already pointed that one out. He could have formed a coalition government with Labour, or stayed in opposition and held onto some kind of electoral integrity that way. Even as a coalition partner, he could have performed much better by actually doing a far better job of blocking the worst Tory legislation. He did none of those, and further added insult to injury by making self-justifying, whinging speeches when he broke his electoral promises. Like not to raise student fees. This was followed by smooth spiel about ‘making difficult decisions’ and ‘having the courage to make the right decision’. Rubbish. Clegg jettisoned that policy with such speed that it was made very clear that he never took the promise seriously in the first place. Nevertheless, his sycophants and placemen in the party are saying that he shouldn’t resign, and asking, who would replace him, if he did. They ruled out Vince Cable, as he was already a member of the government, and so tainted in the same way as Clegg.
The answer to that is actually quite simple: none of the above. Presumably there are other Lib Dem MPs, who are not part of the cabinet, unless the party is now so small that all the parliamentary party now sits round the table at No. 10. You simply put in motions for party elections for the leadership, and wait for someone from the backbenches to move forward. This, however, is clearly unpalatable for the Lib Dem leadership, who will stand behind their man all the way until the party finally hits the iceberg and they all go down.
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The Lib Democrats have lost nearly 300 Council seats [and overall control of quite a few local councils] and the Tories have lost 230 Council seats…… This, methinks, bodes not well for a Coalition success at the next general election in 2015.
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Paddy Ashdown says Clegg is the most talented pollution of his generation … but then Ashdown called me ‘intellectually dishonest’ on a post I’d written questioning his Clegg description ….
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Reblogged this on SMILING CARCASS'S TWO-PENNETH and commented:
Wasn’t the whole quote “Nick Clegg: the Lib Dems are “doing well… crap, really.”
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Does it make any difference to the amount of ‘pension’ he receives the longer he holds out ? —————–well it is all about money at the end of the day
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