[PDF file]: […] lobby groups, policy advisors and think tanks that barely existed in the ‘50s, it is now common for individuals to have had no career outside politics (witness Clegg and Miliband) before entering the Palace of Westminster. Economic policy under Churchill and Eden might have been (as it still is across much of the EU) […]
[PDF file]: […] LibDems being in coalition with the Tories. Still a ‘poor innocent fool’ I’m afraid, Bob! Quite how someone of Marshall-Andrews’ experience could be taken in by Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and the rest of them is anyone’s guess. What does he think now, one wonders? Much less interesting is Mark Seddon’s Standing for Something. […]
[PDF file]: […] call the present political system a ‘cuntocracy’? This is not, as it might seem, just a reaction to the advent of someone as painfully fraudulent as Nick Clegg. We need a new name for not just what the political class do to us because of greed and stupidity; we need a term that advances […]
[PDF file]: […] say much about the Lib-Con government, but this collection tells us a lot about the regime that preceded it 187 Summer 2010 and, thus, partly why Nick Clegg and David Cameron are now sitting in No 10. Between them they also indicate why The Guardian and The Observer, home to the authors of two […]
[PDF file]: […] low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).73 ‘The posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed had they been called in. […]
