The Liberal Democrats were the fall guy for Nick Clegg.
He has done very well for himself, they haven't. He played them for fools.
Do you honestly think he's happy? I think he threw his life behind the LDs, and saw them massacred on his watch. I doubt he'll ever get over it.
Interesting point, especially after driving them to their highest point in 90 years. The first Liberal (Democrat) since Lloyd George to be in Government. And it wasn't a bad Government, either. But politics doesn't care, and the electorate never thank you. In the latter years of the Coalition he always looked miserable. I have a lot of sympathy for Clegg, and I think the LDs need to come to terms with their time in Government rather than treating it like an embarrassing weekend bender.
That said, I'm sure the big bucks help. Still, would he rather be Prime Minister?
I take it you mean Gwilym Lloyd George?
Otherwise Archibald Sinclair would have first claim.
Wordle beat me for the first time today. By row 4, I had all but one letters in their right place. The other space could have been filled by one of four letters, one of which I had just eliminated. Unfortunately I made the wrong guesses in rows 5 and 6. I should have gone for a definitely-wrong word in row 5 containing all three of the possible letters to definitely get it in 6. But I wasn't really thinking too deeply.
The Liberal Democrats were the fall guy for Nick Clegg.
He has done very well for himself, they haven't. He played them for fools.
Do you honestly think he's happy? I think he threw his life behind the LDs, and saw them massacred on his watch. I doubt he'll ever get over it.
Interesting point, especially after driving them to their highest point in 90 years. The first Liberal (Democrat) since Lloyd George to be in Government. And it wasn't a bad Government, either. But politics doesn't care, and the electorate never thank you. In the latter years of the Coalition he always looked miserable. I have a lot of sympathy for Clegg, and I think the LDs need to come to terms with their time in Government rather than treating it like an embarrassing weekend bender.
That said, I'm sure the big bucks help. Still, would he rather be Prime Minister?
I take it you mean Gwilym Lloyd George?
Otherwise Archibald Sinclair would have first claim.
And before him, Herbert Samuel.
You know, as I was writing, I was thinking that a few Liberals had probably found their way into Government in the intervening time. I should have been more precise in my wording, so apologies. That aside, the involvement in the Coalition by the Lib Dems was to a level not seen since David Lloyd George in the 1920s.
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Otherwise Archibald Sinclair would have first claim.
And before him, Herbert Samuel.