> Clegg later held the same position

Clegg was more senior than wynn-williams. Kaplan reported to Clegg

I don't think Clegg will do something like that, because its not really in his way of doing things. He is extraordinarily well connected, and is currently riding the board of directors gravy train.

▲ khurs 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

His wife registered a political party in Spain last week funnily enough, she wants to be PM of Spain!

https://euroweeklynews.com/2026/06/26/nick-cleggs-wife-regis...

▲ TheOtherHobbes an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Always was. Clegg is notorious for getting the Tories into power in 2010 by promising some basic decency, then betraying those promises to prop up the regime responsible for austerity.

He's always been an operator. Moving to Meta after he left politics was an "Oh, of course."

▲ KaiserPro 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> then betraying those promises to prop up the regime

I mean thats one way to look at it. Another way was, the lib dems traded everything for the chance to change the voting from FPP to proportional representation, and failed.

Yes, he went back on tuition fees, and worse still wasn't able to make it a graduate tax (hence the stupid loan system)

but the gamble was that, and it was clear at the time.

unlucky for the libdems was they didn't get PR and got blamed for the tories being shites, and were wiped out accordingly.

▲ nailer 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Hrm. Labour was vastly unpopular. The biggest power move the LibDems could do was install preferential voting (which would harm the two party system by allowing eg

  1 minor party 
  2 major party 
  3 other major party

...preference votes), and the British public (stupidly, but that is their decision) rejected it. He couldn't eg freeze tuition fees because the LibDems were a junior partner in the coalition. The vote on preferential voting was far more significant, if the LibDems could pick one of the other, it was right to pick preferential voting.

The British public blew it, because they bizarrely chose to have less of their own voting intentions recorded.

	▲	jxkrbtjtoo a minute ago \| parent [-]
		But that’s not the reason he got elected. He got elected because he promised to end student loans. If someone says to you, “I’m going to take your money and bet it all on black on the roulette table.” and then comes back and says “sorry I lot it all because I bet it all on 22,” you’d be pissed! Now imagine they come back and say “not only have I lost it all but I borrowed an additional 3x in your name and also lost that”. AV was an absolute non issue to most voters who elected them. Student debt was no1. Doesn’t matter if you think you know better than the people who elected you, it was a stupid gamble.