Editor: Mildred ‘Millie’ Tant, Red Brick’s Anti-Establishment Opinionator provides context and background for this article, which includes a transcript from one of ‘Bob the Gob’s UK phone-ins.’
This article, the second of three articles re the Death of the Liberal Party, has been in the pipeline for a while, the first being published during the ‘Covidity Era’ when the world was going to end, so it was put on the back burner whilst our attention was diverted due to the Lurgy thingy.
During the lurgy era people regularly rang Bob’s show to have a good ‘rant’ about what issues were affecting them and their community. The show is called ‘Bob the Gob’s phone-in,’ because our Bob loves a good rant, too.
The phone-in on this occasion is a follow on from the first article re the downfall of the Liberal Party, providing a neat segway into the third and final article, the content of which is a work in progress.
The phone transcript relates to a conversation Bob had with a student who voted for Nick Clegg based on the Liberal Party’s ‘Election Promise,’ re free tuition for students in the UK, ‘a promise that would never come to pass.’
Nick Clegg served as Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Privy Council from May 2010 to May 2015.
The first article, written by Rusty Retton, Red Brick Political Analyst, explained how he [Clegg] infamously declared to a nation of young hopefuls in one of them pointless televised pre-election ambles, “I’m not the Kingmaker,” should the Election result in a ‘hung parliament.
No sooner had the Election resulted in a ‘hung parliament’ Nicky boy was already in mid-flight abseiling down into the ‘boudoir’ of David Cameron to become not only a Tory bed-fellow, but also to be the man who would make David Cameron the King, or put more precisely, Prime Minister of the UK; it was as if this political ‘bed sharing’ was pre-ordained.’
So, was this an intricate chessboard move by the architects of the future Great Reset,’ in that it would lead to the death of the Liberal Democrat Party, and make way for a two-party system of politics or even a One-Party system of government? Who can tell in politics what is real and what is truth, or who to trust and more importantly, who not to trust?
Nicky ‘boy’ Clegg did not do too bad either when he was booted into an early retirement, becoming a highflyer in the social media industry. Nicky-boy would also receive a Knighthood, although for what we do not know. However, at Red Brick we see his knighthood as more of a
punishment than a reward, now that he has joined the ‘Sir Club’ along with the likes of ‘Weapons of Mass Disinformation,’ Tony Blair
What are these titles the political elites keep handing out like confetti to their mates. Could it be that they are awards for individual achievements, or are they rewards for services rendered.
For whatever reason they are ‘divvied out,’ when I look at the titles certain individuals have been awarded, it only serves to confirm what those of us have suspected all along and that is, they are worthless and a throwback to a time gone by.
Oops, I felt a rant coming on there so I shall avoid digressing any further down the dimly lit pathway of Gifts & Gongs’ and get back to the article in hand; sorry, but working with bob can do that to a colleague. OK, back on message and the point of the internet image below:
The following is a transcript of a call made to Bob from a person who was deeply and directly affected by Nick Clegg’s broken pledge promisy thingy:
BobG: Hello caller, what would you like to say?
Caller: “Hello, is that Bob the Gob?”
BobG: Yes, how can I help you and the floor is yours.
Caller: “I was pleased to read that the Red Brick reporter, Rusty Retton, made it clear in her article that it was Nicky Clegg, the man who said, ‘I’m not the Kingmaker,’ was the person responsible for his party going back on its Election Promise of free University tuition for students in England and Wales. You know, the same Nicky Clegg whose party won fifty-seven seats in the 2010 Election, sided with the Conservatives due to there being a Hung Parliament.”
BobG: Cheers, friend, a U-turn if ever. What else would you like to say?
Caller: “Just that when Nicky Clegg sold his voters down the river by not carrying through with his Election Promise, he must have known that this would destroy his party’s young voting base, and at the same time destroy the hopes and dreams of less privileged generations, who not only may never own their own home, but limited their chances in life, because of an education they will never be able to afford.”
BobG: The students could have taken out a government loan and paid it back when they were up and running in paid employment?
Caller: “That is not free education, is it. “Free means ‘Fee Free,’ Not Buy Now and Pay Later!”
BobG: Thank you, you nailed it. Anyways, what is your name?
Caller: “Don Andouwt.”
In an article for the Independent newspaper by Andrew Grice on 20th of September 2012 the headline read, ‘Nick Clegg eats humble pie over broken promise.’ Andrew Grice reports on Nick Clegg’s decision to make a public apology during an upcoming party-political broadcast for his broken promise on university tuition fees.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nick-clegg-eats-humble-pie-over-broken-promises-8157482.html
A section of Andrew Grice’s ‘excellent article’ states:
In a party-political broadcast to be screened on Monday, Mr Clegg will say: “There is no easy way to say this: we made a pledge. We didn’t stick to it – and for that I am sorry. When you’ve made a mistake, you should apologise. But more importantly – most important of all – you’ve got to learn from your mistakes. And that’s what we will do. I will never again make a pledge unless as a party we are absolutely clear about how we can keep it.”
Harriet Harman, Labour’s deputy leader, responded by saying: “Instead of crying crocodile tears he [Clegg] should vote with Labour to bring
these tuition fees down. If Nick Clegg does not back his words with action, he is just weak and spineless.”
Nick Clegg made his abject apology to the nation for his broken promise on university tuition fees in a final attempt to stop his U-turn haunting his leadership.
Almost two years after the Coalition agreed to treble fees to a maximum of £9,000 a year, the Liberal Democrat leader admitted he was wrong to fight the 2010 election on a pledge not to raise them.
The Deputy Prime Minister’s move is a huge gamble. His critics will see it as a sign of weakness amid speculation that his party may replace him with Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, before the next election.
Red Brick is grateful to the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk
Although Thomas’s call seems like a digression, he makes an inciteful point, in that the year 2010 did see two significant decisions, the erosion of policing numbers and the self-destruction of the Liberal Democratic Party, because in the subsequent election in 2015, the Liberal Democrats lost 49 Seats reducing the party to eight seats. Were you paying attention? We said eight seats?!!!
During the 2010 General Election we all witnessed two things worthy of mention:
• How ‘New’ Labour make a mess of things.
• Nick Clegg threw his ‘party under the bus.’
On the first bullet point, as the saying goes, it should have been ‘out with the old and in with the new,’ although that is not what we saw.
As is often the case in politics, U-turns and reversal of policies and trends are not uncommon for many reasons, which is not always a bad thing, however, New Labour redefined the laws of political physics when the electorate chose to boot out the New, [Labour], and bring in the Old, the Old being the Conservative Party.
On the second bullet point concerning ‘I am not the Kingmaker Clegg’ and that ‘promise & pledge’ bus he threw his party under, fortunately, like so many of the other party campaign promise & pledge buses…. it was absolutely empty.
The political cemetery is full of headstones containing anecdotal meanings and although we have heard, but cannot confirm, there is one headstone and chiselled into it are the words: ‘We could have been contenders and Nick Clegg could have been the King, not the Kingmaker – RIP Lib Dems 1988 to 2015.’
Mildred ‘Millie’ Tant, Rusty Retton & Robert ‘Bob the Gob’ Caulfield for the Red Brick International Media News Group.
Lol yes Clegg bent over to have his moment of fame as the Publics Punchbag, for all the Nasty Tory policies they didn’t want to announce personally, yet Clegg jumped at the chance to present such to us all, just to be on camera and feel important for a second. He did indeed single handedly kill the Lib Dems for good, guaranteeing the Uni-Arsey we are stuck with the arseholes of today, with StarmFishHator firmly the RingPieceLeader of them all for now.