Nick Clegg out :(

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So sad that he lost his seat. Really liked him.

Decent and principled parliamentarian, I hope he chooses to return to politics, we need more of his kind.

Thing is recently Hallam has been very close between lib dem and labour. It used to always be a Tory seat and the Tories were told to vote lib dem last time to keep labour out. This time more we're backing labour for government. Nothing really to do with Clegg himself.

Corbyn played a blinder with his scrapping tuition fees pledge. Hoovered up the student vote and got young people out to vote. Clegg, decent as he is, was a casualty of this.*

Ironic.

Very sad about this, particularly as its now looking like Brexit will be dealt with cross-party - he would have been a massive asset. People can be so extraordinarily short-sighted, students in particular it seems.

I predicted at the last election that Clegg would lose his seat because of the tuition fees rise (as a PP said, he is in a strong Uni constituency!) but it's happened this time instead. I'll have to watch the announcement.

His leadership of the LD was the only period I didn't vote for them, as a SAHM I'm one of the 1950's-style housewives that he criticises so I am not shedding copious tears about it tbh.

I do think it's an awful way to lose your job though, politicians do have my sympathy on that front! Just gone overnight!

Sorry, didn't mean to upset anyone last night and certainly didn't intend to gloat. I misread the tone of the thread gin fuelled

And What, my post wasn't directed at you. Of course we're all entitled to opinions

MaidOfStars No worries; it was a long night

I genuinely don't get this "Lib Dems lied about tuition fees" thing. They didn't win the fucking election, so of course they weren't going to get to deliver their entire manifesto. They did save us from undiluted Tory rule though - the only things that government did that i liked were Lib Dem in origin

Totally agree.

He won again in 2015 purely because UKIP got a lot of votes then. Most of these seem to have switched to Labour instead this time. Such a shame. We really needed him in Parliament in the times ahead.

The reason there is the Lib Dems lied about tuition fee rhetoric isn't because they promised to scrap them but that they made a pledge to vote against any tuition fee rises before going in to the coalition.

They then decided s referendum of PR voting was more important that tuition fees.

And I will say, I like Nick Clegg and I think he's an excellent politician. He'll be back somewhere soon enough, maybe the same seat.

I'm devastated that Nick Clegg has lost his seat. I hope he remains involved in politics as he is easily one of the most knowledgeable politicians in the country.

I genuinely don't get this "Lib Dems lied about tuition fees" thing. They didn't win the fucking election, so of course they weren't going to get to deliver their entire manifesto.

Exactly. They didn't win. The Conservatives got by far the largest number of seats, making the LDs the minority partner in the coalition.

Nick Clegg peaked too soon, I think - he's really grown into a statesmanlike role. Big loss to politics. I think history will judge him more kindly than he is judged at the moment.

Nice chap. Shame he lost his seat.

"stabbed" his brother in the back over the leadership of the LD.*

That has given me the biggest laugh of the day

Sad Clegg's gone too, clever guy and there aren't many of them left.

I have lots of respect for Nick Clegg, one of the few politicians who put country before party. As he said last night "you live by the sword, you die by the sword". Honest and dignified response.

I hope to see him stand again or at least go the Lords, we need more politicians like him, now more than ever.

Also very very glad Norman Lamb kept his seat, his work for Mental Health in Westminster is very important.

As a party that campaigns for PR, I think the LDs were somewhat obliged to work towards a coalition in 2010 as a commitment to PR inevitably means a commitment to working with other political parties as overall majorities are unlikely under PR.

It's very sad that the LDs got so burnt and there is such a gulf between the centre and right in politics that the DUP will be calling some of the shots rather than the similar number of LD MPs having a moderating effect on a Tory minority government.

I'm very sad too. I voted for him. Met Jared (who won) on the campaign trail. He has zero idea what he's doing. Bad for Sheffield where the labour council is running us into the ground and selling off landed gifted to the city to private owners at a rate of knots. The lib dens were the only ones holding them to account for their pillaging of this city.