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How Ridiculous is Nick Clegg? | 33 comments (33 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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Clegg says press 'derided' him - The Irish Times - Wed, Jun 13, 2012
British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg described today how the press "ignored or derided" him and the Liberal Democrats before they entered government.

Mr Clegg said that at one dinner party with Rupert Murdoch and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks in 2009, he had been put at the "very end of the table where the children sit". He also said most of his meetings with editors and proprietors were "fairly humdrum".


You see? The Lib Dems had to be go into Government to be taken seriously by the people who matter at the cost of being derided by the people who don't...


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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Wed Jun 13th, 2012 at 07:05:19 AM EST

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