Does Sheffield Hallam MP, Clegg, wear clogs or does he prefer Ferragamo, is he one of the peeps?

[claig]

The pesky Daily Mail continues the expose
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268436/Some-ordinary-northerner-How-Nick-Clegg-really-man-extraord inary-privilege-family-chateau.html

[ShadeofViolet]

I like Miriam, but whats with the trouser-rolled-up look?

This really is another non story!

[claig]

just beginning to wonder if Nick Dregg is in fact another Tory, like Anthony Lynton Blair.
Dregg, with his Winchester education, aristocratic banking family with a chateau, his Conservative politics at University, followed by working for the Conservative Leon Brittain in the EU, is a bit like Lynton Blair with his Fettes education, Tory supporting father and middle-class upbringing, followed by his entrance into chambers.

[policywonk]

The scales have fallen from my eyes. I was under the distinct impression that Clegg was a son of t'mill, brought up on black pudding and stout, and had not been within a ferret's distance of the Home Counties since he won an under-twelves cheese-rolling competition.

The Mail is really panicking, isn't it? How glorious

[policywonk]

I've been doing some digging, and the situation is even worse than the Mail thought.

Julian Smith, Conservative PPC for the Tory seat of Skipton and Rippon, has never said 'eeh bah goom' and appears to not be related, even by marriage, to Geoffrey Boycott. He was born in Scotland , went to school in Somerset and has even coached a squash team [spits] in France [spits twice for good measure]

[policywonk]

Anne McIntosh, sitting Tory MP for Thirsk and Malton and PPC for the Vale of York, has the sheer fucking effrontery to be entirely Scottish

[policywonk]

Greg Knight, Tory MP for East Yorkshire, comes from the mid... the mid...lands (what are the mid-lands? Is it something to do with leg-on fielding positions?) He has never so much as been an extra in Last of the Summer Wine (and he claimed cosmetic improvements to his driveway on expenses)

[claig]

the difference is that Julian Smith probably doesn't try to conceal his background. I have heard that Clegg says 'eeh bah goom' whenever he shakes one of his constituents' hands. Apparently he is getting so good at it, that he even forgot himself once and said it to the Queen.

[policywonk]

David Davis, Tory MP for Haltemprice and Howden, is... well, I don't know how to break this to you. He's from London.

[policywonk]

claig, this story is unutterable horseshit and you know it.

[abride]

I wonder if Clegg says eeh bah goom when he visits the family chateau in France.

[policywonk]

Nigel Evans, Tory MP for the Ribble Valley, is... WELSH! He's only fucking WELSH!

[claig]

David Davis, who lost out to Cameron, in the Tory leadership contest, is from good working-class stock. He was brought up on a tough London council estate by his single-parent mum. He was a working-class grammar-school boy who succeeded by hard graft. John Major was the same, left school at 16, and became Prime Minister. They are the real deal, know how the peeps really live, worlds apart from the silver-spooned Clegg and Lynton Blair.

[policywonk]

Ben Wallace, Tory MP for Lancaster and Wyre and PPC for Wyre and Preston North, 'was born in the London Borough of Bromley at Farnborough and educated at Millfield School. He attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and served in the Scots Guards from 1991-8, serving in Northern Ireland and Central America. After leaving the army, he became a Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament as a list MSP for North East Scotland.'

Well, This Will Not Stand.

[policywonk]

Oh Claig, listen to yourself. What does your strangulated 'MPs must be working class' argument have to say about Cameron?

I understand that it's not much fun being a Tory at the moment but you're going to have to do better than this.

[policywonk]

Anyway, don't worry. I'll stop soon, because the Tories have hardly any MPs at all north of Gainsborough. Hang on Sooty, what's that you say? It's because they're the party of affluent southerners? Really?

[atlantis]

"David Davis, who lost out to Cameron, in the Tory leadership contest, is from good working-class stock."

I wanted DD to win the leadership contest, I thought him a 'good' guy, but then he pulled that stupid stunt and got into bed (not literally I hope ) with that woman from liberty (sorry never had any respect for them since the old days when they had PIE in their midst during HH time) Shami Chakrabarti and ruined a promising career.

"worlds apart from the silver-spooned Clegg and Lynton Blair."

I thought I was the only one to see comparrisons between Clegg and Blair.

Give me Cameron any day of the week, he doesn't try to hide his upbringing, although like Clegg, Blair and Brown he is his also a 'career' polititian.

Clegg a northerner ? Oh dear whatever next?

[JackBauer]

Stop pw, my poor heart can't take the strain.

[claig]

I'm not an enthusiastic Tory, I just think they are far better for the working people of this country than Labour. I'm not too bothered who wins. I think we'll find out that Clegg is really 'Lord Snooty', the same as Cameron and Lynton Blair. Nothing much will change whoever gets in, the stirling enthusiastic work that Clegg did as part of Leon Brittain's private office, will continue regardless, except Clegg will interject a few more 'eeh bah gooms' to fool the peeps. I have nothing against toffs like Annuziata Rees-Mogg, since they don't hide their background, unlike Clegg, who claims to be what he is not.

It's just interesting that John Major rose to leadership of the Tory party and became Prime Minister, regardless of his background. The Tory party is a meritocracy, and toffs have to compete, unlike the Labour and Liberal parties which are stuffed full of the privileged Oxbridge elite pretending that they support the Geordies' Newcastle United and the Yorkshire working class with their 'away the lads' and 'eeh bah gooms'.

[ahundredtimes]

This REALLY doesn't work does it. Why don't Conservative HQ see that?

Clegg is like Cameron. Oh? Yes, so, erm, don't vote for him.

Clegg is like Blair. Oh is he? Not some inexperienced nobody then? Well, erm I'm saying this because I don't want you to vote for him. You are?

Jeez. They're making him safe and pushing him into the open arms of people of all sorts of political persuasion. Certainly me, Mrs ideologically adrift centre ground.

It's a really odd tactic.

[bruxeur]

I think it's medication time, children.

[bruxeur]

Get out of the way, 100x, claig needs some Rx.

[atlantis]

"This REALLY doesn't work does it. Why don't Conservative HQ see that?"

I don't think it's anything to do with CHQ, the mail and their ilk are just catering to their audience, most mail readers will vote Conservative anyway and labour read the mirror and the guardian (which are both doing the same thing to the tories I might add).

I forgot to add that I still like Hague (mr peek too soon ) I think he would make a great PM.

[ahundredtimes]

Oh yes I see Atlantis. Still they must be wishing they'd stop don't you think? It backfiring quite badly - telling Mail readers that actually Clegg is a quite posh and little bit conservative??

Agree re the Guardian etc. Must admit, I've never been particularly bothered by where Cameron went to school.

[policywonk]

I think the press smears have quite a lot to do with CPHQ, via Andy Coulson, who is smearing sweaty excrement far and wide. Worried for your job, Andy? Feeling that you've made a dreadful balls-up of everything?