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| rdfs:comment | - Nick Clegg, MP is the "Deputy Prime Minister" of Great Britain. He is the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons. Clegg is David Cameron's right hand man in the House of Commons.
- Nick Clegg declared his priorities as; defending civil liberties; devolving the running of public services to parents, pupils and patients; and protecting the environment. . None of which has actually been evident in the legislation issued by the coalition government. This has created the (probably correct) impression that the Conservatives are going to be just as right-wing and Thatcherite as ever and the used-to-be-Liberals are going to go along with it to be in proximity to power. Unsurprisingly, this has caused Clegg's popularity among actual liberals to nose-dive. Nick Clegg has also publicly admitted to being an atheist, which goes to show that you can't generalise about atheists. This fuels Andrew Schlafly's beliefs that Britain is becoming a "very liberal place" (which is good).
- Nick Clegg is a British politician who was the deputy prime minister from 2010 - 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 - 2015. He has been the MP for Sheffield Hallam since 2005.
- Current leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as part of a coalition deal with the Conservative Party. He was recently propelled into the limelight of British politics leading up to the General Election thanks to a strong performance in the three prime ministerial debates, becoming something of an Ensemble Darkhorse thanks to his previous relative obscurity. Although the Liberal Democrats failed to break through as many predicted - they actually lost 6 seats in the election despite a 1% increase in their share of the popular vote overall - the resulting hung parliament made Nick Clegg something of a kingmaker. In a coalition with the Tories, the two parties made up a majority of seats - however neither Labour nor the Lib Dems secured enough seats f
- Nicholas Gibberish Custard-Tie Teaboy "Nick" Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is the former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a former leader of the Liberal Democrat party. He lead his party from the political wilderness in 2010 until they formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party and then returned to the scrub lands and tumbleweed following the Liberal Democrat near wipe out in the 2015 General election.
- Nicholas William Peter "Nick" Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is the British Liberal Democrat Leader since 2007 and currently the Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council (with special responsibility for political and constitutional reform) in the coalition government of which David Cameron is the Prime Minister. Clegg has been the Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2007, and a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Sheffield Hallam since 2005. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and an award winning journalist for the Financial Times.
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| term start | - 1999-06-10
- 2005-05-05
- 2006-03-02
- 2007-12-18
- 2010-05-11
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| Name | - Nick Clegg
- Clegg, Nick
- Nicholas William Peter Clegg
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| Record | - Nick-Clegg/Sheffield-Hallam/1086
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| Alternative Names | - Clegg, Nicholas William Peter
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| Birth Place | - Chalfont St Giles, England
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| Born | - 1967-01-07
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| Quote | - "I believe every single person is extraordinary.
The tragedy is that we have a society where too many people never get to fulfil that extraordinary potential.
My view – the liberal view – is that government’s job is to help them to do it.
Not to tell people how to live their lives.
But to make their choices possible, to release their potential, no matter who they are.
The way to do that is to take power away from those who hoard it.
To challenge vested interests.
To break down privilege.
To clear out the bottlenecks in our society that block opportunity and block progress.
And so give everyone a chance to live the life they want."
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| Birth name | - Nicholas William Peter Clegg
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| abstract | - Nick Clegg, MP is the "Deputy Prime Minister" of Great Britain. He is the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons. Clegg is David Cameron's right hand man in the House of Commons.
- Nicholas William Peter "Nick" Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is the British Liberal Democrat Leader since 2007 and currently the Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Council (with special responsibility for political and constitutional reform) in the coalition government of which David Cameron is the Prime Minister. Clegg has been the Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2007, and a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Sheffield Hallam since 2005. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and an award winning journalist for the Financial Times. Clegg was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election and became the Liberal Democrats' Home Affairs spokesperson in 2006. Clegg became Deputy Prime Minister following the 2010 general election, when the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party. As well as his parliamentary roles, Clegg has contributed to many pamphlets and books on political issues. He has also had a large number of jobs, including being a skiing instructor and working in the office of a bank in Helsinki. Clegg attended the University of Cambridge, the University of Minnesota, and the College of Europe in Belgium. He speaks fluent English, Dutch, and Spanish. He is married to Miriam González Durántez and has three sons.
- Current leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as part of a coalition deal with the Conservative Party. He was recently propelled into the limelight of British politics leading up to the General Election thanks to a strong performance in the three prime ministerial debates, becoming something of an Ensemble Darkhorse thanks to his previous relative obscurity. Although the Liberal Democrats failed to break through as many predicted - they actually lost 6 seats in the election despite a 1% increase in their share of the popular vote overall - the resulting hung parliament made Nick Clegg something of a kingmaker. In a coalition with the Tories, the two parties made up a majority of seats - however neither Labour nor the Lib Dems secured enough seats for a Lib/Lab coalition that held a majority without involving the nationalist and Northern Irish parties. Understandably, he has lost a lot of credibility among British leftists following the formation of the Conservatives-Liberal coalition, especially considering one of his campaign's "marketing tools" was encouraging people to vote Liberal to keep the Tories out. This was mainly because, although British politics has moved on to the point whereby on some issues (notably civil liberties) Labour were more to the right than the Tories and so they are not necessarily closer in principle to the Lib Dems, a lot of Lib Dem seats have Tories as the principal opposition, especially in the The West Country, where Labour's support is practically non-existent. And with Gordon Brown deemed impossible to support as Prime Minister, the Labour party had no clear leader or strategy for negotiations, as the negotiating team later admitted. Clegg had also stressed beforehand that the Lib Dems would be obligated to 'talk first' with whichever party had won the most seats as they had the most right to form a government; many grassroots Lib Dems were angry this led to the talks being followed through with a deal. The general perception, fair or not, that the Lib Dems are acting largely as lapdogs for the Conservatives while in government has not particularly helped this impression, and the Conservatives appear to have successfully transferred the fallout for some of their less-popular policies onto Clegg and the Lib Dems since taking office; correspondingly, Clegg's popularity and that of his party has sunk to new lows since then. The popularity of Clegg following the first debate is often referred to by the media as 'Cleggmania'. Clegg is also MP for Sheffield Hallam, and is not to be confused with the other Mr. N. Clegg from Yorkshire (yes, jokes have been made).
- Nick Clegg declared his priorities as; defending civil liberties; devolving the running of public services to parents, pupils and patients; and protecting the environment. . None of which has actually been evident in the legislation issued by the coalition government. This has created the (probably correct) impression that the Conservatives are going to be just as right-wing and Thatcherite as ever and the used-to-be-Liberals are going to go along with it to be in proximity to power. Unsurprisingly, this has caused Clegg's popularity among actual liberals to nose-dive. Nick Clegg has also publicly admitted to being an atheist, which goes to show that you can't generalise about atheists. This fuels Andrew Schlafly's beliefs that Britain is becoming a "very liberal place" (which is good).
- Nick Clegg is a British politician who was the deputy prime minister from 2010 - 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 - 2015. He has been the MP for Sheffield Hallam since 2005.
- Nicholas Gibberish Custard-Tie Teaboy "Nick" Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is the former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a former leader of the Liberal Democrat party. He lead his party from the political wilderness in 2010 until they formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party and then returned to the scrub lands and tumbleweed following the Liberal Democrat near wipe out in the 2015 General election. Clegg's five years of imitating British Prime Minister David Cameron's poodle are now over. A terminal visit to the vet may come next. His party is now leaderless, rudderless, clueless and irrelevant, though to be fair to the Liberals, they have been there before. Following his resignation the Liberal Democrats are leaderless, but are spoilt for choice regarding his successor, as they have no fewer than 8 (oops!), 7 MPs to choose from. Two years late in June 2017, Clegg lost his own parliamentary seat in a General Election. Curtains. So where did it all go right/wrong for Clegg? Should he have kept the Liberal Democrats unsoiled from genuine political power, keeping to their principles or was it down to trusting the word of the slippery David Cameron Or was Clegg always there to render the Liberal Democrats harmless, the Manchurian Candidate under the direct control of the Conservative party to discredit their old foes the Liberals. Either way, the Lib Dems are now the Lib Dodos, destined to end up inside a specimen jar for curious generations to gawp at in future.
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