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[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Says the man who cosied up to David fucking Cameron for 5 years, I don't think Nick Clegg is a good judge of who exactly is a monster

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

He can't see the wood for the trees. I think he thinks that just because the people he worked with day to day were personable and pleasant to be around, that means the company mission isn't corrupting society.

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 minutes ago

Or... he's just a monster himself. Better at hiding it, arguably

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

And yet somehow that was still the best government we've had in the last 15 years :(

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 hours ago

Jesus that's a depressing realisation. How did it get worse from Cameron and Clegg? But somehow it did

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I think the tension having coalition partners in the government ultimately led them to make better decisions. We all know what happened when Cameron got his majority and no longer had the Lib Dems to hold him back.

I know tuition fees is the millstone around their neck but considering they were the junior partner they got to enact a fair amount of their policy platform. Indeed most of the more popular acts during that period the Tories like to boast about where Lib Dem initiatives.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

. We all know what happened when Cameron got his majority and no longer had the Lib Dems to hold him back

He held an inadvisable referandum and quit?