Nick Clegg: George Osborne is a 'very dangerous man'
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Nick Clegg: George Osborne is a 'very dangerous man'
Lib Dem leader launches a scathing attack on his coalition colleague the chancellor and labels David Cameron ‘a classic traditional shire Tory’
George Osborne is a “very dangerous man” whose plan for the public finances would result in economic “disaster”, Nick Clegg has warned in one of his strongest attacks yet on the Tory strategy.
In an indication of a potential stumbling block in any post-election negotiation with the Tories, Clegg vowed he would do “everything in my power” to stop Osborne carrying out his plan.
After five years in coalition with the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrat leader said the prime minister, David Cameron, was “not too much about grand vision” and acknowledged he could “live with that” but was highly critical of the Tory chancellor.
He warned that Osborne’s plans for balancing the books, which involve an extra £12bn of welfare cuts and £13bn slashed from Whitehall budgets without any tax rises, were “socially and morally unacceptable”.
The strident comments, in an interview with Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell in May’s edition of British GQ, are the latest sign of Clegg’s attempts to condemn what he views as “ideological” cuts planned by the Conservatives.
The deputy prime minister said Cameron was “very much a Tory, and in that tradition he is not too much about grand vision”.
He added: “Cameron would tell you himself, he is a classic traditional shire Tory, and I can live with that.”
But, he continued: “George Osborne is a very dangerous man with a very dangerous plan, and I will do everything in my power to stop it.”
He said the chancellor’s plans would do “so much damage” and added: “I don’t know of a developed economy that wants to do something as rigidly ideological as he wants to do, to balance the books through public spending reductions alone, not tax, with one section, the working poor, taking the biggest hit.
“I find it socially and morally unacceptable, but also economically a disaster.”
The “dramatic lurch to the right” involved a “harder approach than anything the arch-Thatcherites would do”, he claimed.
Clegg added: “He will destroy public services. They will embark on an ideological shrinking of the state.”
Asked about Ed Miliband, Clegg said he was a “perfectly nice guy, personable, as is David Cameron” but accused the Labour leader of putting short-term party interests ahead of doing the right thing.
“I think of a number of crucial occasions where I thought to myself, ‘Ed Miliband, you can jump and do something big here and surprise us all, or do the small tactical thing.’
“Every time he has done the latter: House of Lords reform, AV referendum, party funding, he has done the easy thing. Syria – too much ducking and weaving.”
Miliband has claimed opposing military action in Syria showed he was tough, but Clegg said the decision also involved “too much political calculation”.
The Lib Dem leader said he wanted his party back in government “because Osborne’s ideological assault on public services has to be stopped” and “Ed Miliband and Ed Balls’ head-in-the-sand approach to public spending has to be challenged, because it would be really bad for the economy”.
The Lib Dem leader predicted that forming a government after the election could take “a lot longer” than the five days which led to the formation of the coalition in 2010 and predicted that Whitehall was still ill-equipped for power-sharing administrations.
“Ed Miliband and David Cameron are both saying let’s revert to the status quo ante: only a single party can govern this country properly. It is false.
“It is such a danger to them. Also, Westminster is painfully, woefully clapped out; Whitehall is stuck in the past.
“It will take two or three coalitions before it is sorted out. The day when people don’t think government is going to come to an end because the governing parties don’t agree, we will have moved on.”
The Lib Dem leader is heading back out on the campaign trail after spending time in his Sheffield Hallam seat over Easter, highlighting his party’s record on cutting taxes by raising the threshold at which people pay income tax.
Clegg’s comments emerge as the Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, accused Cameron and Osborne of “breathtaking hypocrisy” and said he was told during budget talks to look after the workers while the Conservatives looked after the bosses.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/06/nick-clegg-george-osborne-is-a-very-dangerous-man
Well, perhaps he should have said so during the last five years!
George Osborne is a “very dangerous man” whose plan for the public finances would result in economic “disaster”, Nick Clegg has warned in one of his strongest attacks yet on the Tory strategy.
In an indication of a potential stumbling block in any post-election negotiation with the Tories, Clegg vowed he would do “everything in my power” to stop Osborne carrying out his plan.
After five years in coalition with the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrat leader said the prime minister, David Cameron, was “not too much about grand vision” and acknowledged he could “live with that” but was highly critical of the Tory chancellor.
He warned that Osborne’s plans for balancing the books, which involve an extra £12bn of welfare cuts and £13bn slashed from Whitehall budgets without any tax rises, were “socially and morally unacceptable”.
The strident comments, in an interview with Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell in May’s edition of British GQ, are the latest sign of Clegg’s attempts to condemn what he views as “ideological” cuts planned by the Conservatives.
The deputy prime minister said Cameron was “very much a Tory, and in that tradition he is not too much about grand vision”.
He added: “Cameron would tell you himself, he is a classic traditional shire Tory, and I can live with that.”
But, he continued: “George Osborne is a very dangerous man with a very dangerous plan, and I will do everything in my power to stop it.”
He said the chancellor’s plans would do “so much damage” and added: “I don’t know of a developed economy that wants to do something as rigidly ideological as he wants to do, to balance the books through public spending reductions alone, not tax, with one section, the working poor, taking the biggest hit.
“I find it socially and morally unacceptable, but also economically a disaster.”
The “dramatic lurch to the right” involved a “harder approach than anything the arch-Thatcherites would do”, he claimed.
Clegg added: “He will destroy public services. They will embark on an ideological shrinking of the state.”
Asked about Ed Miliband, Clegg said he was a “perfectly nice guy, personable, as is David Cameron” but accused the Labour leader of putting short-term party interests ahead of doing the right thing.
“I think of a number of crucial occasions where I thought to myself, ‘Ed Miliband, you can jump and do something big here and surprise us all, or do the small tactical thing.’
“Every time he has done the latter: House of Lords reform, AV referendum, party funding, he has done the easy thing. Syria – too much ducking and weaving.”
Miliband has claimed opposing military action in Syria showed he was tough, but Clegg said the decision also involved “too much political calculation”.
The Lib Dem leader said he wanted his party back in government “because Osborne’s ideological assault on public services has to be stopped” and “Ed Miliband and Ed Balls’ head-in-the-sand approach to public spending has to be challenged, because it would be really bad for the economy”.
The Lib Dem leader predicted that forming a government after the election could take “a lot longer” than the five days which led to the formation of the coalition in 2010 and predicted that Whitehall was still ill-equipped for power-sharing administrations.
“Ed Miliband and David Cameron are both saying let’s revert to the status quo ante: only a single party can govern this country properly. It is false.
“It is such a danger to them. Also, Westminster is painfully, woefully clapped out; Whitehall is stuck in the past.
“It will take two or three coalitions before it is sorted out. The day when people don’t think government is going to come to an end because the governing parties don’t agree, we will have moved on.”
The Lib Dem leader is heading back out on the campaign trail after spending time in his Sheffield Hallam seat over Easter, highlighting his party’s record on cutting taxes by raising the threshold at which people pay income tax.
Clegg’s comments emerge as the Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, accused Cameron and Osborne of “breathtaking hypocrisy” and said he was told during budget talks to look after the workers while the Conservatives looked after the bosses.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/06/nick-clegg-george-osborne-is-a-very-dangerous-man
Well, perhaps he should have said so during the last five years!
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Why anyone would even consider voting Conservative is beyond the rational thinking of most civilised people.
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Handy Andy wrote:Why anyone would even consider voting Conservative is beyond the rational thinking of most civilised people.
What a truly idiotic and chidish thing to say.
It is that kind of intolerance that creates hatred and as always it is the left that promotes such intolerance of those who's views differ to theirs.
So when you say civlized, you just proved how uncivilized you really are.
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To "uncivilised " add " thick, a man who is so uneducated in politics he would vote for a Goat if Milliband told him too!
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Tories = greed + screwing the poor to serve the rich.
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Handy Andy wrote:Tories = greed + screwing the poor to serve the rich.
Grow the fuck up you child, as again you prove how intolerant you are.
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Well, he is a "cock" didge, he says so himself!
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nicko wrote:Well, he is a "cock" didge, he says so himself!
He is the from the old Stalin school of lefties, the worst and most intolerant kind of lefties.
His other article today proves how intolerant he is making the most disgusting accusations about IDS, being utterly clueless it is EU rulings as to why a family needs to request benefit contributions for their daughter from Germany.
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Handy Andy wrote:Why anyone would even consider voting Conservative is beyond the rational thinking of most civilised people.
You'd have to be a masochist who likes being beaten. Debt doubled, wages through the floor, the rich having tax breaks and evading the tax they should pay, the government in their pockets. The NHS being demolished, sick and disabled dying or killing themselves because of sanctions against them, zero hours or really low paid jobs and worse being planned. You couldn't make it up that a government would be so bad.
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The Hunger Games. . V for Victory. Both are films that ring true for a Conservative Britain.
The tory sycophants here can only abuse posters, not address the issue.
The tory sycophants here can only abuse posters, not address the issue.
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Handy Andy wrote:The Hunger Games. . V for Victory. Both are films that ring true for a Conservative Britain.
The tory sycophants here can only abuse posters, not address the issue.
Its V for Vendetta you numpty
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I read an article the other day where it was claimed Tony Blair had said the Milliband has gone too far left to ever win the election...?
Anyone else seen that?
Anyone else seen that?
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