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Nick Clegg keeps emailing me. How do I make him stop?

cleardot.giffromcleardot.gifNick Clegg <LIBDEMSFEDERAL@emarketing.etelligent.uk.com>reply-tocleardot.gifNick Clegg <LIBDEMSFEDERAL@emarketing.etelligent.uk.com>
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Dear Toasty,

I am painfully aware of the pledge my colleagues and I made to you and to voters on tuition fees ahead of the General Election. Departing from that pledge will be one of the most difficult decisions of my political career. It means doing something that no one likes to do in politics – acknowledging that the assumptions we made at election time simply don’t work out in practice. With the benefit of hindsight, I signed a pledge at a time when we could not have anticipated the full scale of the financial situation the country faces now and the absence of plausible alternatives for students to the arrangements we are now advocating...


Most of you will agree that the existing system of the funding of higher education is unsustainable. This is exacerbated by the enormous deficit left to us by Labour necessitating unavoidable cuts in government support for higher education.

This is one of the most difficult political decisions I have ever had to make and I have struggled endlessly with it. I could not forgive myself, however, if we did not take decisions now, regardless of how difficult they are politically, that would lead to a fair and sustainable system of higher education funding for future generations.

I.e. Oh b0ll0ck$ we've somehow ended up in government and nothing we promised beforehand will ever work.

For God's sakes. I didnt vote for the lib dems because I expected them to get into government. I voted for them because they were meant to oppose the kind of things that governments do.
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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    I.e. Oh b0ll0ck$ we've somehow ended up in government and nothing we promised beforehand will ever work.

    For God's sakes. I didnt vote for the lib dems because I expected them to get into government. I voted for them because they were meant to oppose the kind of things that governments do.

    I guess it's one of those, 'be careful what you wish for, you might just get it' moments.
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    The predicted deficit before the election was higher than the actual figures that have been generated after the election, due to unexpectedly fast growth. So, to nick a phrase, anyone who says "we could not have anticipated the full scale of the financial situation the country faces now" is a lying !!!!turd.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • antrobus
    antrobus Posts: 17,386 Forumite
    I.e. Oh b0ll0ck$ we've somehow ended up in government and nothing we promised beforehand will ever work.

    For God's sakes. I didnt vote for the lib dems because I expected them to get into government. I voted for them because they were meant to oppose the kind of things that governments do.

    Welcome to the real world.
  • tomterm8 wrote: »
    The predicted deficit before the election was higher than the actual figures that have been generated after the election, due to unexpectedly fast growth. So, to nick a phrase, anyone who says "we could not have anticipated the full scale of the financial situation the country faces now" is a lying !!!!turd.



    He has definitely finished the Libs for the next decade/s.

    Obviously contrary to what Sparti!!!! would have you believe.
    Not Again
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    Theyve turned into a little satellite Tory party. Dropping small bombs of misery on the populace, detached from the lumbering conservative death star.
  • Theyve turned into a little satellite Tory party. Dropping small bombs of misery on the populace, detached from the lumbering conservative death star.

    Expendable to the Conservative Party at the right time by Death Ray.


    Or the "I'm not with Nick" Ray.....
    Not Again
  • Wheezy_2
    Wheezy_2 Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    I voted for them...

    You're forgiven, but don't let it happen again, ok?
  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    I keep getting spam from the relatives of the late Sani Abacha, the former dictator of Nigeria.

    If you tighten up your spam settings, scam emails like these should be eliminated.
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • It's easy to get Cleggie to stop sending you these emails. Just follow these three simple steps:

    1. Get him to sign a Pledge Stating that he will Definitely Continue sending you Emails

    2. Get him to sign a Pledge Stating that he will Definitely and Absolutely Continue sending you Emails

    3. Get him to sign a pledge Stating that he will Definitely, Absolutely and, as God is His Witness, Continue sending you emails.

    There, that ought to do it...
  • Alan_Cross
    Alan_Cross Posts: 1,226 Forumite
    It's easy to get Cleggie to stop sending you these emails. Just follow these three simple steps:

    1. Get him to sign a Pledge Stating that he will Definitely Continue sending you Emails

    2. Get him to sign a Pledge Stating that he will Definitely and Absolutely Continue sending you Emails

    3. Get him to sign a pledge Stating that he will Definitely, Absolutely and, as God is His Witness, Continue sending you emails.

    There, that ought to do it...



    Love it.

    The guy's in it for self advancement and precious little else. Principles? After this, what principles?
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