We all remember Clegg Mania back in May. The infection spread around the country quicker than greased lightening. We’re 5 months down the line and only now are the victims infected by Clegg fever feeling sick. The coalition government for the Liberal Democrats could prove to be a short-term glory for a long-term suicide.
Liberal support has depleted drastically from 23% to 15% since the general election, as the party trades left wing values in favour of harsh Tory policies, which could see Liberal Backbenchers running open armed to the Opposition. The five Lib Dems in the Cabinet will stay. You can’t blame them for grabbing a career progressing opportunity, which they never expected.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander – the Liberal Democrat in charge of the spending review – backs the pace and intensity of the cuts set out by the Tories. Before the election Danny Alexander said 'that cuts this year shouldn’t be made, so Great Britain doesn’t end up in the same state as Greece.' On March 13, Nick Clegg also said that ‘merrily slashing cuts now is an act of economical masochism.’
At the Party Conference today in Liverpool, Nick Clegg tried to persuade the delegates and the rest of the country that the planned cuts are fairer due to a Liberal political influence. On the coalition relationship between the two parties Clegg said: "If the Liberal Democrats had not gone into coalition, the consequences for the party would have been worse and the benefit for the country would have been fantastically diminished."
The weakest section of Clegg's speech was his Margaret Thatcher-style comparison between the finances of a household and the finances of a nation. He called the deficit 'a grave challenge,' but he said nothing about the other grave economic challenge facing Britain, namely a potential return to recession, or a period of prolonged economic weakness, as a result of the scale and speed of the Coalition's spending cuts.
Overall, it was a confident performance from the Deputy Prime Minister, but serious questions were left unanswered. Though Clegg outlined the logic of the coalition well, many of his MPs and activists will be left wondering how they will fight the next election on a distinctive platform. The Liberal Democrat Leader noted that there are '1,690 days' until the next election, with the unspoken message that there is time for the party to recover in the opinion polls.
Nick Clegg has aided the Tories in deep and painful cuts in public spending which will profoundly affect you and me. The Liberals should expect to be punished mercifully when the consequences of assisting David Cameron in his vast, drastic spending regimes embrace Great Britain.
I thought Clegg was made of good things. He came to light with the ability to stand firmly against David Cameron and may have done exceptionally well at the next general election. He will now go down with his ship. He came to Cameron’s rescue at the hour of need and has now dug a deep hole for the Liberal Democrats, which may now be near impossible to clamber out of.
Liberal support has depleted drastically from 23% to 15% since the general election, as the party trades left wing values in favour of harsh Tory policies, which could see Liberal Backbenchers running open armed to the Opposition. The five Lib Dems in the Cabinet will stay. You can’t blame them for grabbing a career progressing opportunity, which they never expected.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander – the Liberal Democrat in charge of the spending review – backs the pace and intensity of the cuts set out by the Tories. Before the election Danny Alexander said 'that cuts this year shouldn’t be made, so Great Britain doesn’t end up in the same state as Greece.' On March 13, Nick Clegg also said that ‘merrily slashing cuts now is an act of economical masochism.’At the Party Conference today in Liverpool, Nick Clegg tried to persuade the delegates and the rest of the country that the planned cuts are fairer due to a Liberal political influence. On the coalition relationship between the two parties Clegg said: "If the Liberal Democrats had not gone into coalition, the consequences for the party would have been worse and the benefit for the country would have been fantastically diminished."
The weakest section of Clegg's speech was his Margaret Thatcher-style comparison between the finances of a household and the finances of a nation. He called the deficit 'a grave challenge,' but he said nothing about the other grave economic challenge facing Britain, namely a potential return to recession, or a period of prolonged economic weakness, as a result of the scale and speed of the Coalition's spending cuts.
Overall, it was a confident performance from the Deputy Prime Minister, but serious questions were left unanswered. Though Clegg outlined the logic of the coalition well, many of his MPs and activists will be left wondering how they will fight the next election on a distinctive platform. The Liberal Democrat Leader noted that there are '1,690 days' until the next election, with the unspoken message that there is time for the party to recover in the opinion polls.
Nick Clegg has aided the Tories in deep and painful cuts in public spending which will profoundly affect you and me. The Liberals should expect to be punished mercifully when the consequences of assisting David Cameron in his vast, drastic spending regimes embrace Great Britain.
I thought Clegg was made of good things. He came to light with the ability to stand firmly against David Cameron and may have done exceptionally well at the next general election. He will now go down with his ship. He came to Cameron’s rescue at the hour of need and has now dug a deep hole for the Liberal Democrats, which may now be near impossible to clamber out of.
