Clegg: Fourth best in the party
For most leaders to come in second place is a severe blow (think Gordon Brown, always), so how Nick Clegg must be feeling today is anybody’s guess. Lib Dem Voice’s inaugural survey has ranked the party’s leader as the fourth best performing shadow cabinet member.
Clegg trailed deputy leader and shadow chancellor Vince Cable, shadow home secretary Chris Huhne and shadow secretary of state for transport Norman Baker.
However, number crunchers should note that the website only polled 113 Lib Dem members.
Still, you have to wonder what Lib Dems expect from Clegg given its perennial position as the third party. No politician with a real desire to win joins the Lib Dems, surely? Certainly not a politician capable of GCSE-level probability…
No, the Sheffield-based politician’s party’s job is to ensure the Tory’s don’t get too comfortable in second place.
For in truth, in an age where England’s two main political parties struggle to define their fundamental differences, what hope does a third party have without adopting a drastic stance?
Speaking of which, any hope I had briefly invested in Clegg evaporated pretty quickly when I heard him talk about the party’s new plan to drop taxes if they were to get in power. Great I thought.
Clegg continued: “And it is right and proper we set out the direction of travel first and outline how we intend to achieve this thereafter.”
Sigh.
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Serves him right for speaking down at me when we saw him in parliament!
Welll, we did steal all of his water which in hindsight was perhaps actually quite rude! When The Scot has to pick you up on manners you know you’re b.a.d.