Comments on: More confusion over when Clegg flip-flopped over the deficit

By: Look Left – Former Labour MP sent down for expenses fraud | Left Foot Forward

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:02:51 +0000

[...] on debt). The Lib Dems only diverged from Labour’s fiscal policy at some point after they first sniffed the scent of power in that dramatic weekend in May. Yet by August they’d completely forgotten their pre-election [...]

By: Laws: Lib Dems still thought best time for cuts was 2011 | Left Foot Forward

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:33:01 +0000

[...] described the £6 billion in cuts as “reckless” before agreeing to them once in Government. Jones adds that Laws argues the Lib Dems had to agree to the speed of [...]

By: Clegg completes Thatcherite conversion with Maggie metaphor | Left Foot Forward

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:15:21 +0000

[...] some unknown point after the Reuters statement but before he spoke to Mervyn King, Clegg changed his mind. With his conversion complete, the [...]

By: From saviour to smug git: the decline of Nick Clegg (part 1) | crunkfish.com

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:29:23 +0000

[...] is his rationale for making a U-turn on economic policy. His explanation for which, it transpires, seems to have been an outright lie. Furthermore, he later claimed to have changed his mind before the election – without [...]

By: Newsnight viewers want Clegg to be Paxo'd | Left Foot Forward

Newsnight viewers want Clegg to be Paxo'd | Left Foot Forward — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:37:32 +0000

[...] – maybe if Paxman asks him “at what point did you and your eight-year-old daughter change your mind on the [...]

By: Andy Sutherland

Andy Sutherland — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:26:31 +0000

♻ @wdjstraw: How @ChukaUmunna exposed Clegg's economy with the truth over Mervyn King's advice http://bit.ly/bjr5yS

By: Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward | Left Foot Forward

Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward | Left Foot Forward — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:27:31 +0000

[...] Westminster, flip-flopping all over the place on when exactly he changed his mind on the deficit, cut loose by the Governor of the Bank of England – who he’d attempted to hide behind – and [...]

By: Mr. Sensible

Mr. Sensible — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:35:32 +0000

Mr Mouse, the OBR have specifically said that the deficit was not as bad as Osborne is making out.

And on Forgemasters, as I have told you before, these are the same banks who Cable says are ripping people off.

The job of government is to help the economy to grow and create jobs.

And that is correct, Liz; I think I would find this quite boring if we agreed all the time. Look at the debate we had on Tuesday about the police.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:50:00 +0000

CLEGG – LIAR

The new type of politics

By: Now Clegg claims he changed mind on deficit before the election | Left Foot Forward

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:48:52 +0000

[...] Mervyn King’s appearance at the Treasury select committee yesterday, in which he distanced himself from Nick Clegg’s claim that it was only after meeting him he had changed his mind on the [...]