Nick Clegg Should Hire Me As An Adviser

[poliphilo]

How's this for an explanation of what happened?

"I learned about Lord Rennard's little problem back in 2008 and asked Danny Alexander to have a word with him in private. Shortly afterwards Lord Rennard resigned. I'll leave it to you to imagine what exactly transpired at that meeting.  And, no, we didn't tell the media at the time because we prefer not to wash our dirty linen in public. Who does?"

If you look at the facts as we know them it seems to me that Clegg acted exactly as a leader should- firmly, decisively- even ruthlessly. Why then is he trying to create an impression of shiftiness and lack of grip?

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

That's a very good question.

And the only answer I can think of is: "Because he saw how well denying everything had worked for Chris Huhne."

Which is not a very good answer.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Because he's shifty and lacks grip?

'Little problem'?

Oy, gevalt!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It seems to me our politicians could save themselves a world of trouble by being straight with us.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I meant that ironically.

Sexual harassment at work is criminal, isn't it? I'm surprised the police haven't been called.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

So did I and yes, it is.

The plot appears to be thickening.

Well actually, I wouldn't thay it was thickening, jutht rather uninterethting............

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Because the Lib Dems are above politics, and don't want to use the tricksy machinations of power that other, lesser beings stoop to.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Apropos of nothing really, I'm so out of tune with UK politics at the moment that whenever I see Nick Clegg's name I think he ought to be the cloning vat child of Johnny Clegg and Nick Cave. Which, musically speaking, might be more interesting than the reality.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Of course, I was forgetting that.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Considerably more interesting....