Nick Clegg is a former Liberal Democrat who became deputy Prime Minister in a coalition with the Conservative Party in 2010. Following this, his Liberal Democrat party lost 49 of its 57 seats at the next election. He subsequently got a job with Facebook.
Oh, it's the same Nick Clegg? Do you have any idea why he didn't insist on a new electoral system when he had the chance, even if it meant sacrificing everything else?
He did insist! The country had a referendum after he got in. It was one of the main pre-conditions for the
coalition.
He did sacrifice everything because of that too! (Ref lost, low if not the lowest ever turnout, party lost huge support generally and he exited politics failed)
never mind, took a bit of googling, but I found some info on it.[0]
Christ that's in bad taste.
EDIT: wanted to add this quote from [1]: "On 5 May, David Blunkett, one of the Labour Party former-government ministers who had supported the 'No' campaign, admitted that the £250 million figure used by the 'No' campaign had been fabricated, and that the 'No' campaign had knowingly lied about the figure and other claims during the campaign."
So it does seem like it was a testing ground for the brexit busses. Just make a bunch of stuff up.
My question has been answered, but somehow I cannot find a way to feel satisfied. Rather… oh god no, say it's not true, please say it's not true and yes I do realise it's true.
Well, he lost his parliamentary seat in 2017, post-referendum, and there were no new UK commissioners created after that (Julian King was appointed in 2016 and was the final one.)
He's probably paid a great deal more as Facebook VP and has a less stressful job which doesn't involve dealing with the press or public nearly as much. Looks like an ascent to me.
