(not satire – it’s Nick Clegg!)
The following are all facts.
At exactly the same time Nick Clegg was at Cambridge, records show someone by the name of N.Clegg joined the Cambridge University Conservative Association between 1986 and 1987.
Clegg however maintains he has “no recollection whatsoever” of joining the association.
After university, Clegg worked for Tory MP and Thatcher’s former Home Secretary, Leon Brittan in his private office, as his speech writer and adviser.
And after the 2010 general election, Nick Clegg unnecessarily went into a coalition with the Conservative Party when he could have accepted a looser Confidence & Supply arrangement between the two parties.
Since then Clegg has accepted virtually every policy suggestion of the Conservative Party, despite none of them being in his own party’s manifesto – including tax cuts for the rich, introduction of secret courts and the destruction of the NHS – and helped make them law.
And now Clegg looks set to narrowly retain his seat in Sheffield Hallam on Thursday solely on the back of Tory voters backing him tactically in order to defeat the 2nd placed Labour candidate.
Tory voters have no qualms about backing Clegg, because they instinctively view him as one of their own.
And of course, they would be absolutely right.
Because Clegg is – and always has been – a Tory.
Please feel free to comment.
Pride's Purge 
Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Mr Pride shows here that Clegg has always been a Tory in disguise, rather than a true Liberal, or Liberal Democrat. As he goes on to show, it’s therefore no surprise that many Tories are voting tactically for him in order to stop his Labour opponent getting in. And Clegg clearly intends to reciprocate the deal. He has said that he’ll first talk to the Tories before Labour about forming a possible coalition.
This demonstrates precisely why no-one, who cares about the destruction of the health service or the welfare state, or worries about the mounting number of starving poor forced to use food banks, should ever vote Lib Dem.
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All very easy with the benefit of hindsight. Whether Clegg has worked with Conservatives in the past is irrelevant. Liberals unlike Socialists do not have the same tribal hatred of those with other political views. Clegg is a politician and his strategy to negotiate with the largest party first after the 2015 election is a) right in principle – as a democrat and b) shrewd politically: He is now likely to retain his seat by Conservatives voting tactically. But that doesn’t mean he will ultimately support Cameron as PM for the reasons you give but he must at least be seen to try this if the Conservatives gain the most amount of seats. In reality I think it is unlikely Clegg will go into another coalition with the Conservatives. They sabotaged his PR referendum and House of Lords reform. The quid pro quo is boundary changes that would have helped the Tories were blocked by Clegg, improving Milliband’s chances. The Liberals may not have got everything they wanted from a coalition but they have not had hands on experience in living memory. They have stopped much (but not all) of the right wing of the Tory party and, whilst temporarily alienating many of their supporters, Clegg’s Liberals are well placed to engineer who, in fact, becomes PM. There is all to play for and I don’t pretend to know what Clegg will do. But I think the assumption that Clegg will just go into a second coalition with the Conservatives come what may is very wide of the mark. It is imperative though at this stage that he gives this impression. Whatever your thoughts about Clegg as a “traitor” getting into bed with the Tories, both Labour and Conservatives need to know that he is a democratic honest broker. And at the moment I can’t see any real sign that he isn’t which is why his party’s percentage of the vote ceased to be in freefall some time ago.
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Clegg to me is a traitor, and the more Lib Dem MPs voted out the better.
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So Clegg might have joined a student Tory association for a short time nearly 30 years ago. So f***ing what?
Maybe some ‘political bloggers’ should grow up a bit and try to think about current reality instead of clutching at ancient and vague straws.
Tom – You do some good work, but this is beyond pathetic.
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In reply to Michael Proctor, it is only Clegg who has the notion that he is under some imperative to negotiate with the party with the most seats. All constitutional experts say so. It is his way of justifying his complete and utter betrayal of the LibDems, and indeed the whole of the UK. Let’s not forget that the first thing the Coalition did was to pass the 5 year parliament bill, which made it almost impossible to challenge the govt once in power, once again self-serving.
For the electorate’s true view to be abided by, it should be coalition between those with the most policies in common, and in 2010 the LibDem manifesto was more Labour leaning, which was why many tactical voters felt they were safe voting for a Lib / Lab pact. He enabled the Tories to implement some of the harshest policies ever, including the dismantling of the Welfare State, that no-one voted for. Clegg didn’t just enable a coup by the neo-libs, he was an essential part of the cabal that took over the UK against the electorate. He agreed that manifestos should be dumped.
The Tories are absolutely sure Clegg will provide a coalition of the LD rump, so much that they are telling Hallam conservative voters to back Clegg. He probably already has (back-room deniable) talks on-going to secure this support. If he loses his seat there are more LDs likely to back Labour, in an effort to re-establish credibility.
So yes, it is a fairly foregone conclusion that Clegg will bed down with the Tories. He’s just like all the other petty little power-hungry dictators, world wide, and not a “democratic honest broker”.
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Michael Procter —
Something I want explaining.
The Tory party did not have a majority in 2010. Therefore, can you explain how the policies of the ‘nasty right wing elements’ would have been enacted without a coalition? To me, the ‘moderating’ argument is just plain stupid.
The worst part about this position is what it does in Conservative/LibDem marginals. If the lib dems are automatically going to side with the conservatives anyway, then your voting choices are even worse than usual..
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Andrew Dodds – The ‘moderating’ argument within a coalition or minority administration is VERY FAR from stupid (and that is proven by many such successful governments around the world, not least in Scotland), but it depends on the principles, commitment and integrity of the party seeking to exert that influence.
I think we may be able to judge that principle by the difference in behaviour between the LibDems and the SNP in the coming days……
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The fact that so many voters feel that have to vote ‘tactically’ must indicate that the first-past the-post system of elections needs a radical reform to something more approaching proportional representation. In the last [2010] Election, 35% of the voting went to parties other than the 2 major parties, yet these 35% of the total votes cast only achieved 13% of the seats.
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I’m in a marginal constituency – Tory close on the heels of Lib Dem, Labour nowhere. I agonised about how to vote. (In the past, I’ve always lived in safe Tory seats but voted with my heart (Labour) knowing what the outcome would be.) This time, I wanted to stop the Tory but feared that voting Lib Dem might contribute to another ConDem coalition. Then I thought that maybe there was a chance that the Lib Dems might form a coalition with Labour so, with a very heavy heart, I voted for them.
I must say, in response to tunefultony that yes, FPTP doesn’t work in anything more than a two horse race; but I do hate the idea of all the post-election horse-trading and the inevitable broken promises and red lines crossed. You don’t really know what you’re voting for at all.
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LIB DEMS WIPED OUT THE STATE PENSION
The Lib Dems Pensions Minister Mr Steve Webb (happily lost his job as MP) was in charge of wiping out the state pension from 2016, with nil state pensin for life coming to huge numbers of men and women.
See why at end of my petition, in my WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT section, at:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
LIBERALS WERE TORIES IN THE PAST
The Liberals sided with the Tories to bring about the workhouse and New Poor Law that killed 5 million in the 19th century (the 1800s).
POLITICAL CLASS ARE WITHIN AN ARISTOCRATIC MINDSET
Our political class has been aristocratic in mindset from public school education and Oxford and Cambridge universities, and so are the 1 per cent in their mind’s eye only.
They cannot comprehend western democracy because we have never had one in the UK.
PARLIAMENT IS FEUDAL
Parliament and councils are based on feudal mindset back a 1000 years into the past with the Normans who came in 1066AD with William the Conqueror.
Cromwell abolished the House of Lords when we started the people’s parliament (briefly and only in his lifetime, after the English Civil War). But it returned after his death when royals ruling by divine right returned with King Charles the 2nd.
An unelected by the people upper house of parliament is not western democracy in the least.
NOT EVEN LABOUR COULD COMPREHEND THAT INCREASING THE RIGHT TO VOTE BY DIRECT PUBLIC ELECTION WAS DEMOCRACY FOR ALL
NOT JUST THE FEW
Labour kept saying they would abolish the direct public elected Police and Crime Commissioner and fought against the elected Mayors (nothing to do with the cardboard cut outs expensive ceremonial mayor who is a feudal left over who does no councillor work for a year but gets extra expenses that could ahve gone to a foodbank).
So the public does not believe in direct public elections or referndums, because our political class does not comprehend western democracy at all.
FEUDAL POILITICAL CLASS CANNOT COMPREHEND CAPITALISM
Nor can a feudal mind understand the concept of capitalism, that did not exist under the feudal system.
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