So Clegg refuses to resign, saying why should he

What a spineless, horrible lovely person he is.
Knows he's done, but should never have been involved in government in the first place.

 

Clegg won't be Lib/Dem leader at next election. The Party will implode as momentum gathers for a change of leader.
Went back on Pre election promises as soon as they formed a coalition with Cameron and his cronies.People won't forget the Tuition Fees Fiasco.
The aftermath of these elections could well cause the whole coalition to disintegrate before May next year.

 

He's on 100k + per year and can't get sacked.....why should he resign. Heads of loads of top companies are the same.....carry on and wait for the pay off even though you are cr@p and if you were an ordinary worker you'ld have got the push ages ago with no compo.

 

If he went now he would lose his Parliamentary pension so better to be turfed out next year.

Sheffield Hallamshire will return to what it always was, the only Tory seat in Sheffield.

 

You'll have to extract Clegg from his job. He has no principles at stake.

It wasn't the issue of him forming a government, it was his immediate determination to sustain that government at all costs. All of his promises are in tatters. There is nothing the Conservatives could do that would help Clegg to discover a conscience - not on taxation, health, education, welfare, - nothing. I would not be surprised to see Clegg crossing the house at the next parliament to join the conservative party in some senior regard, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if such an agreement has already been made in private.

Clegg was trusted to act as a restraint on the Tory party who couldn't achieve an outright majority even in the face of the most bumbling and shambolic Labour election campaign in generations. Clegg wasn't worthy of the role.

 

It is the mans bread n butter after all .

 

Don't get all this Clegg bashing, myself. If the Lib Dems had been in sole goverment, then fair enough, but they're the minority party in a coalition government.

How many people really expect the minor partner to adhere to, or even be able to adhere all their election pledges? i mean really, come on.

can you imagine the cuts and general little-man bashing that a majority tory government would have unleashed?

if anyone's to blame, it's the electorate. you get what you vote for (or in many cases can't be bothered to vote for)

 

It would've been a minority Tory Government, so they wouldn't have been able to push through the cuts they've managed to do with the Lib-Dems help. Also, the electorate didn't vote for a Conservative/Liberal Democrat Alliance.

 

either that or he has a honour ie lordship heading his way......call me cynical or what.....

 

I don't really understand all this hatred for Clegg. What has HE done that is so bad? A pro-European party was always going to struggle in a country that is largely hostile to the EU.

 

Sold his soul for a cabinet salary and pension. LibDems will fall into insignificance now.

 

The only thing the LibDems fell out with the Conservatives over was the referendum over PR - firstly they didn't get to offer the version of PR that they wanted to, and secondly they were unhappy with the fashion in which the Conservatives presented their 'no' campaign.

Not a whisper about NHS, schools, student fees, taxation, fuel/energy etc etc etc.

The only thing that matters to Clegg is power.

 

Led his party into a pact that has been disastrous for them. It could see them completely wiped out at the next election, and UKIP as the alternative vote. And for that, he should step down.

 

Regardless of the morality of ditching your principles for power as the Lib Dems have judging Clegg's performance as a leader of his own party is fairly damning. The decision to form a government with the Conservatives was a betrayal of trust for many party supporters and is electoral suicide as the post pact elections demonstrate. On those grounds alone he should resign/be forced out.

The correct political decision on was clearly to let the Conservatives for a minority government and support them or defeat them as conscience/manifesto pledges demanded.


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Clegg was taken in by the promise of electoral reform. Something the Lib Dems / Liberals / SDP have been campaigning for since I was in nappies.

Sadly he made a very poor call & the party will pay for it for the next 10 years.

I have a very good Lib Dem MP in Headingley where i live & I will vote for him & the general election, as he deserves to retain his seat in my opinion. He has opposed many of the tory policies. However he & many other of his colleagues could pay for Clegg's poor judgement.

 

I'm not sure the country is particularly hostile to the EU. As I understand it support for staying in is hovering around the 50-55% level - about the same level of support for the EU as there is in France, incidentally, and more than enough to win a referendum if you take into the account the fact that 'undecided' people usually go with the status quo. Don't forget that only 10% of the population actually went out and voted for Ukip.

The reason people hate him is that he deliberately courted the anti-Tory vote before the 2010 election and then got straight into bed with them. A good proportion of Lib Dem voters only did so because they presented themselves as to the left of Labour on some (by no means all) issues - there's a definite feeling that they've been tricked into propping up a conservative government.

 

A lot of students voted for them (including myself) as we believed he represented us, he then **** on students from a great height by agreeing to massive hikes in tuition fees. This picture says everything you need to know:

 

That sums the guy up perfectly.
People must not forget the betrayal shown by Clegg to the electorate who voted for them.
The lot of them are just a bunch of weasels.
Will be wiped out at the next election.