Sir Nick Clegg

Clegg has earned it. The fact that this is likely to give Farage an aneurysm just makes it sweeter.

:D
 
LabR@t said:
More deserving, history will be very kind to me farage.

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I was coming in here to say if Farage had got one, all the post of the honours system being outdated or kiss your back side or corruption wouldn't be here and the same people will say exactly what you have just posted, that he deserved it.

It's not really a fault of the honour system, it's just political allegiance.
 
Clegg did have achievements in the coalition I grant you, but at a terrible cost to his own party through him cosying up to the Tories and turning his back on decades long liberal policies. When he became leader, the LD’s had 50 MP’s. When he resigned, they had 8. He then even lost his own seat, and followed that by telling voters to vote for Labour or the Tories instead. Many of his own party hold him in contempt now. Hardly what you call a political success.
 
robfosters said:
and turning his back on decades long liberal policies
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Never got this line of thinking - at the end of the day they were the minor party in the coalition and mostly saved their efforts for the battles they could win - IMO a lot of the anger directed towards them and/or Clegg is misplaced.

Not sure he quite has done enough to deserve a knighthood but he has definitely done a lot more in politics than many.
 
robfosters said:
Clegg did have achievements in the coalition I grant you, but at a terrible cost to his own party through him cosying up to the Tories and turning his back on decades long liberal policies. When he became leader, the LD’s had 50 MP’s. When he resigned, they had 8. He then even lost his own seat, and followed that by telling voters to vote for Labour or the Tories instead. Many of his own party hold him in contempt now. Hardly what you call a political success.
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I liked Clegg, thought he was one of the few decent politicians

Think things would have been much worse if the tories had a free hand to do whatever they wanted, imo the LD's stopped them doing their worst

Think Clegg and the LD's have been punished for putting country before party when they should be admired and rewarded
 
The arguments that Clegg helped to tame some Tory policy does somewhat gloss over the fact that his party enabled their forming of a government.

I'm not saying there was necessarily a better option at the time, but it's a weird point in time to start from to make the overall impression a positive one.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I was coming in here to say if Farage had got one, all the post of the honours system being outdated or kiss your back side or corruption wouldn't be here and the same people will say exactly what you have just posted, that he deserved it.

It's not really a fault of the honour system, it's just political allegiance.
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I haven't said anything like that, other then clegg is moronic loser.
 
Caged said:
The arguments that Clegg helped to tame some Tory policy does somewhat gloss over the fact that his party enabled their forming of a government.

I'm not saying there was necessarily a better option at the time, but it's a weird point in time to start from to make the overall impression a positive one.
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Can only really blame the electorate for that one.
 
Caged said:
We should give Farage a knighthood when he's been elected as an MP as many times as Clegg, and has served in government.
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What has clegg done? Without farage Cameron would never have even called for a referendum.

Like I have said, history will be very kind to Mr farage.
 
I do think they should take more care when awarding honors and holding the person up to be a role model, an example to society, only to find out later they are upto their neck in dodgy dealings and have to remove it
 
I even voted for him, because they were the only ones raising the income tax personal allowance, but I still don't think he did anything personally worth a knighthood.
 
HardwareGeek said:
I liked Clegg, thought he was one of the few decent politicians

Think things would have been much worse if the tories had a free hand to do whatever they wanted, imo the LD's stopped them doing their worst

Think Clegg and the LD's have been punished for putting country before party when they should be admired and rewarded
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One thing that rankles is that Clegg and his coalition cronies didn’t do more to temper the severity of the welfare reform act 2012. That was one horrible and disastrous piece of legislation. Universal credit, bedroom tax, housing benefit cuts, benefit caps, disability reform, it was a disaster from front to back. No one can argue that the act has actually cost some people their lives.
 
robfosters said:
Nick Clegg is being knighted in the new year for his five years as a deputy PM. Can anyone tell me exactly what he did in those five years to be worthy of a knighthood?

I don’t care who or what he campaigns for, I just don’t see how he deserves a knighthood for essentially being little more than a lapdog to David Cameron. Knighthoods are handed out way too willy nilly imo.

https://news.sky.com/story/nick-clegg-to-receive-knighthood-in-new-years-honours-list-11184639
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Delayed the **** storm this current government has got us in?
 
I think he was meaning in general - the coalition probably - in some cases more clearly than others - slowed down the rate that some things unfolded with the Tories.
 
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