Walker570 Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 Now I know this country is going to the dogs. Reports that Nick Clegg is to receive a Knighthood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 It must have come as a shock. He's not used to winning anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salopian Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 Brian Clegg would be a better receipiant. These Honours lists really are now devalued , I would like to bet someone has been honoured for running a corner shop in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 48 minutes ago, Salopian said: Brian Clegg would be a better receipiant. These Honours lists really are now devalued , I would like to bet someone has been honoured for running a corner shop in the past. Norman Clegg more like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriBsa Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 So the author of "How to Stop Brexit" is to be Knighted? This shows how morally corrupt our establishment is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryman Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 Disgraceful, makes a complete mockery of the whole thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 14 minutes ago, TriBsa said: So the author of "How to Stop Brexit" is to be Knighted? This shows how morally corrupt our establishment is. I didn't know being an ****hole qualified one to receive a gong? But I suppose it's just another example of the establishment looking after themselves and their own! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 Was it for leading his party to victory? Or for being the most unelectable mp in recent years? Or for being Deputy PM to make up the numbers? His wife is going to be unbearable now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriBsa Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 1 minute ago, panoma1 said: I didn't know being an ****hole qualified one to receive a gong? But I suppose it's just another example of the establishment looking after themselves and their own! Meanwhile we have ex members of our armed forces; who have truly served this country, cast aside and sleeping rough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 I don't have he words to describe just how awful this is. Clegg getting anything at all beggars belief. A truly shallow individual in my book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewh100 Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 1 hour ago, TriBsa said: Meanwhile we have ex members of our armed forces; who have truly served this country, cast aside and sleeping rough. yeah your bang on the money there TriBsa, its an absolute disgrace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jam1e Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 I wish i could say i'm shocked, but i'm sad to say i'm not...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 (edited) Good for him, an unenviable position putting his party in coalition with the conservatives where there was only going to be the one winner. But overall he did a good job. Edited December 26, 2017 by scolopax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getthegat Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 So many are handed out to people for just doing their job. It should be for charity work, or bravery, or showing real human spirit etc, not over paid sports "personalities" or such like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redial Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 6 minutes ago, getthegat said: So many are handed out to people for just doing their job. It should be for charity work, or bravery, or showing real human spirit etc, not over paid sports "personalities" or such like. 6 minutes ago, getthegat said: So many are handed out to people for just doing their job. It should be for charity work, or bravery, or showing real human spirit etc, not over paid sports "personalities" or such like. Couldn't agree more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 34 minutes ago, scolopax said: Good for him, an unenviable position putting his party in coalition with the conservatives where there was only going to be the one winner. But overall he did a good job. It's called "Making up the numbers." It would have been the monster raving loony party if the numbers had been sufficient. Shame he thought it made him anything more than a puppet and even worse his wife saw it as a platform to gob off about everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 1 hour ago, scolopax said: Good for him, an unenviable position putting his party in coalition with the conservatives where there was only going to be the one winner. But overall he did a good job. He sold out for a brief period of imagined power, as his party and himself subsequently found out at the ballot box! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriBsa Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 (edited) 15 minutes ago, panoma1 said: He sold out for a brief period of imagined power, as his party and himself subsequently found out at the ballot box! I think the ringfencing of 0.7% of GDP (over £12Bn currently) to be squandered on foreign aid had his fingerprints on it. So if not power he had some influence. But hardly party to one of our greatest governments. Edited December 26, 2017 by TriBsa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 7 hours ago, Walker570 said: Now I know this country is going to the dogs. Reports that Nick Clegg is to receive a Knighthood. In fairness I’d give him a Knighthood - he took a bullet and committed career suicide to keep labour out of government at a very precarious time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 5 minutes ago, Mungler said: In fairness I’d give him a Knighthood - he took a bullet and committed career suicide to keep labour out of government at a very precarious time. Another way of looking at it is he took the only possible chance at government he was ever likely to have had, then having seized it and been granted a post, did his best to wreck anything the much larger party in the coalition wanted to achieve - to the great detriment of the country. Now he is trying to wreck Brexit. Took his LibDem party from 40 MPs to 8 MPs. I suppose that is worthy of some reward, but a knighthood? I really can't find anything good to say about him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 Do the current handful of Lib Dems hold him in high esteem? It would be nice to think he did it for the country and to keep Labour out, but I suspect he did it for himself. He couldn't resist the limelight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 7 minutes ago, Gordon R said: Do the current handful of Lib Dems hold him in high esteem? It would be nice to think he did it for the country and to keep Labour out, but I suspect he did it for himself. He couldn't resist the limelight. I believe he talked to both parties, Labour (then under Gordon Brown) and Tory (David Cameron). I suspect he went for whoever made the higher offer (for him personally) - and deputy Prime Minister is as high as you can go. If Clegg hadn't blocked the boundary changes that were due, the 'risk' of a labour government would be somewhat diminished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 He sold out on tuition fees too! He's trying to overturn the UK people's democratic will to leave the EU, he appears to think his will/interests take precedent over those of the country he purported to represent....the bloke needs to be tried for sedition/treason......not get a knighthood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 But he had his heart set upon a nice well paid job within the EU and its wonderful pension scheme! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted December 26, 2017 Report Share Posted December 26, 2017 they will give it any one now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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