Nick Clegg - an apology
A few weeks ago, in common with other media commentators, I might have inadvertantly given the impression that Mr Nick Clegg's performance on the first-ever televised debate between the three main party leaders revealed him as a towering political collosus whose easy chat-show style marked him out as one of the truly great statesmen of his generation. Phrases such as "I Agree With Nick, " "The New Obama" and "Cleggmania sweeps Britain," which dominated the headlines for several minutes, could possibly have been construed as a suggestion that Mr Clegg seemed like a nice young chap in a suit who was in no way tainted by the MPs' expenses scandal and whose polices deserved to escape proper scrutiny. I now accept that there was not a jot nor scintilla of truth in anything that I or other commentators might have thought at the time and that we all got it hopelessly wrong on this one.
I'm ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Devon’s Graham Smith, blogging on news, views and some fresh insights into West Country life, particularly the way government works locally and nationally.
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At 8th May 2010, James wrote:Hear Hear. Unless he achieves complete electoral reform I can see no political future for either Nick Clegg or indeed the Lib Dem's if he enables a failed Tory election campaign take control over a population that clearly [ 64% ] voted against it.
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