Nick Clegg is a careerist politican, we shouldn't forget that, but somebody ought to be briefing him on events and how to behave in the outside world. Mr Clegg, whom we should not forget cannot tell you how much the basic state pension is but can remember his exact number of lovers, has done it again - pushing the case for donating to the DEC on behalf of the victims of the terrible Haiti ear...
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LittlesLog on 17th Jan 2010 (via antonylittle.blogspot.com)
Nick Clegg the Liberal Democrat leader has wildly underestimated the level of the basic state pension.
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Telegraph on 16th Sep 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
With so many other important developments around at the moment - financial and political - Nick Clegg might just get away with his horrendous gaffe when he said the basic single state pension is about £30 pounds when it is in fact £90.70, three times as much. In normal times, it would be an error which Clegg would find hard to lie down. It badly undermines attempts to portray him as be...
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MichaelCrick on 17th Sep 2008 (via bbc.co.uk)
Plans for a radical change to the UK state pension that would merge the basic state pension with the state second pension are to be set out in a green paper
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FT on 25th Oct 2010 (via ft.com)
Nick Clegg might not know how much the state pension is. But if you asked David Cameron the same question, he would reply "The what?", or with a blank-faced silence. He has no idea that there is a state pension at all. And let's keep it that way, lest he, Osborne and Purnell abolish it.
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DavidLindsay on 17th Sep 2008 (via davidaslindsay.blogspot.com)
A moment of light relief from all of today's excitement. Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was interviewed by ITV, and they asked him how much the state pension was. His answer? "About £30 per week". In fact, the state pension for a single pensioner is £90.70/week. No wonder they thought it was so easy to cut £20 billion of public spending, if they ...
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Labourhome on 16th Sep 2008 (via labourhome.org)
Nick Clegg has a piece in The Guardian today: The world watched in horror yesterday as the conflict in Gaza claimed its latest innocent victims in the rubble of a UN school. Any hopes of reconciliation are being snuffed out as anger spills into protests around the world. The past two weeks have been a telling indictment
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 7th Jan 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg today described the collapse of world trade talks in Geneva as ‘devastating’. Nick Clegg attended the launch of the talks in 2001, and worked as a senior EU trade negotiator before his career in politics. Commenting, Nick Clegg said: "Many British families struggling with rising food and fuel bills won’t have been aware of these talks, but thei...
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LibDems on 30th Jul 2008 (via libdems.org.uk)
David Cameron has said that the huge budget deficit will not stop a Tory government restoring the link between earnings and the level of the basic state pension.
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Telegraph on 23rd Sep 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The BBC reports: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has told Fifa inspectors England’s bid for the 2018 World Cup is “unbeatable”. The Fifa delegation, which will write a report on England’s bid to host the World Cup, began their four-day visit with a reception at Downing Street. Mr Clegg said: “I believe this is an
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 23rd Aug 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
In 1910, 100 years ago this year, people demanded a basic state pension so that no one had to be terrified of poverty in old age. The Tories said we couldn’t afford a basic state pension. They fought tooth and nail against it. But our great grandparents disagreed. The people of this country came together, and finally, they beat the Tories.
