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

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claig · 24/04/2010 08:17

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

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policywonk · 24/04/2010 09:40

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

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claig · 24/04/2010 09:36

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.

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policywonk · 24/04/2010 09:36

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)

policywonk · 24/04/2010 09:32

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 · 24/04/2010 09:27

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 · 24/04/2010 09:09

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

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claig · 24/04/2010 09:06

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.

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ShadeofViolet · 24/04/2010 08:50

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

This really is another non story!