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| Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg. |
by ANDY FLEMING, Guest Blogger
As
a fellow human being you’ve got to feel some sympathy towards Nick Clegg. After nearly four years as the Coalition government’s Deputy
Prime Minister, his fortunes have nosedived from being a political Adonis to
being the Devil incarnate. He’s been
blamed for most of the political misfortunes that have befallen his party,
culminating numerous Liberal Democrat meltdown s in both local and national elections over the last few years. And then of course there was the debacle over the result of his party's only original idea, Alternative Vote
system.
In
truth, most of his problems are self-inflicted as he adopted the “default
position” for politicians of lying to the electorate. Springing to mind straight away is the
duplicitous Coalition Agreement entered into with David Cameron’s Conservatives
to introduce student higher education tuition fees of up to £9,000 per annum.
