Category Archives: Cleggmania
Will Ed Miliband be the beneficiary from a media driven brotherly race?
The Labour leadership, in what largely has turned out to be a family affair took another curious move yesterday, with representatives of both Ed and David getting together to trash out positions in each respective shadow cabinet. As David has … Continue reading
Clegg confused as Tories spin themselves into pole position v AV
Nick Clegg cannot afford to make statements such as this; “The Liberal Democrats aren’t a sort of glorified form of the Electoral Reform Society.” – 20th August 2010 It sounds like he is talking down the prospects of electoral reform. … Continue reading
Filed under Additional vote, British Politics, Cleggmania, Coalition government, Nick Clegg, Politics
Is Nick Clegg Satan?
When Cleggmania was at its height just after the first TV debate I asked if Nick Clegg was God. It now seems appropriate for similar exuberant reasons to explore whether he is actually closer to Satan. We all know he … Continue reading
Clegg gains a voice – at last!
So they have finally realised that Nick Clegg has been chewing throat soothers for the past 7 weeks or so, because he quite clearly has lost his voice, and some say his head. In the very early days of the election … Continue reading
Brown bouncing back?
Have we seen what’s called a ‘game changer’? I’m referring to Gordon Brown’s quite outstanding speech at the Citizens UK Conference. Before I watched the footage I heard some commentators go as far as saying it was the best speech … Continue reading
Filed under British Politics, Cleggmania, General election, Gordon Brown, Hung Parliament, Labour, Nick Clegg, Politics, Swing
Workhorse, show pony or the outsider?
The debate started like last week with an admission from Gordon Brown. At least he was honest. It would have been foolish for him to let someone else, either on the stand or in the crowd mention it first – … Continue reading
Is Clegg a Tory Pleb?
Is Clegg a secret Tory boy? Well he has a background that any Tory Toff would be proud of. In regards to his party going into a coalition with the Conservative Party – I would say that it would go … Continue reading
Lib/Con – New Nazi-Soviet Pact?
David Cameron seems to have finally acknowledged that it seems likely the Tories will not win a majority large enough to govern outright. That is significant – especially with the timing of Nick Clegg’s message that his party will not … Continue reading
Gordon too late to get out of the Brown stuff?
Last week our reaction was dictated by what the leaders had done compared to our expectations. Clegg had appeared to come from nowhere – thus ‘Cleggmania’ has dominated the last week. It seems unlike last time each party is … Continue reading
Daily Mail wins Smear of the Year
Well done to the Daily Mail – they have just won the award for utterly absurd smear of year. With incredible coincidental timing being that the second TV debate being this evening – they are essentially trying to accuse Nick … Continue reading
Filed under British Politics, Cleggmania, Daily Mail, Liberal Democrats, Politics, Prime Ministerial debate, Smear
