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Nick Clegg is an old Westminster school boy

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Kafka9 · 18/04/2010 23:52

And well that is it really. A non story. As is Tony Blair went to Fettes and DC Eton. So contrary to what Gordy is banking on totally irrelevant

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scottishmummy · 18/04/2010 23:59

irrelevant.he should be judged on abilities.not faux class war

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Kafka9 · 19/04/2010 00:02

Exactly.

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Ninjacat · 19/04/2010 00:22

Kafka9 are you a tory plant? I smell a rat in your postings.

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Kafka9 · 19/04/2010 00:25

No I am not. I am going to vote conservative though. I have voted Labour in the past but feel very very let down by them. I have been a mumsnetter, albeit an inveterate name changer , post ds's arrival in 2003.

I dislike labour spin.

tired now though and got to go to sleep as we are back on the school run in the morning.

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scottishmummy · 19/04/2010 00:29

fair enough post.mn is open access anyone can post doesn't actually matter what her job is.no one is compelled to reply

Ninjacat · 19/04/2010 00:50

SM you are right. It was a genuine question though looking at the last Kafka posts that's all.

Just got my nose twitching.

bobthebuddha · 19/04/2010 10:22

Clegg was at Westminster with DH, who would never vote for him in a million years . DH was a scholarship boy; i presume the Cleggs paid full fees. Funny though, Clegg comes from a rather wealthy banking family and went to one of the most expensive public schools in the country. Cameron comes from a wealthy stockbroking family and went to one of the most expensive public schools in the country. I haven't seen the 'toff' moniker chucked at Clegg yet.

jonicomelately · 19/04/2010 10:25

Dirt please bobthebuilder.

ClickNegg · 19/04/2010 10:26

ut surely PARNETS choose schools?
i dont get the school thing

ClickNegg · 19/04/2010 10:27

id like to see a kid saying

" well sorry Pater id like to go to the local comp incase i need to run for office"

what is wrong with them having had a good hejucashun?
then they can teach us poor folk stuff

jonicomelately · 19/04/2010 10:28

I think they call it inverted snobbery

bobthebuddha · 19/04/2010 10:38

I don't get the school thing either, it's ridiculous. When friends use the 'toff' word I want to spit (and I'm not from a wealthy background in case anyone questions my motives) Mark you, if Cameron were a Lib-Dem or in Labour, he wouldn't get the toff abuse. If Clegg was a Tory, he would get it. Cameron's just in the wrong party

Kewcumber · 19/04/2010 10:42

"irrelevant.he should be judged on abilities.not faux class war" very true but I wish that you could convince all the "I hate geaotge OSborne" crew. Who don;t appear to be able to come up with anything other than his parents called him Gideon and he is reputedly a baronet. Not one mention of his politics or what he has done to eanr such opprobrium. Not that I think he's such a catch, just think he should be judged on what he does, rather than what his parens called him.

ClickNegg · 19/04/2010 10:43

he just has a lot of sex with people he shouldnt though
that is his problem

jonicomelately · 19/04/2010 10:45

Kew, Gideon is the exception to the rule

Kewcumber · 19/04/2010 10:50

"he just has a lot of sex with people he shouldnt though" who George Osborne?

BettyButterknife · 19/04/2010 10:50

Cameron is a major toff, though.

This from his wikipedia page:
Cameron married Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield, the daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet and Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones (now the Viscountess Astor), on 1 June 1996 at Ginge Manor in Oxfordshire... A Daily Mail article from June 2007 quoted Sunday Times Rich List compiler Philip Beresford, who had valued the Conservative leader for the first time, as saying: "I put the combined family wealth of David and Samantha Cameron at £30m plus. Both sides of the family are extremely wealthy."[196] Another estimate is £3.2 million, though this figure excludes the million-pound legacies Cameron is expected to inherit from both sides of his family.

Which is why he's the perfect Tory leader - he has a conflict of interest huge incentive to limit taxation of the super-rich.

bambipie · 19/04/2010 10:55

I don't care what politicians do or where they come from as long as they are competent.

IMO shagging around, expenses fiddling etc all far prefferable to sending thr country to thr brink of bankruptcy and mortgaging our dcs futures.

GrumpyOldHorsewoman · 19/04/2010 11:03

We are going to be struggling a bit if it becomes a pre-requisite that our politicians come from state educated/working class backgrounds.
My neighbour's son-in-law knows NC very well and says he is a very impressive man who has done nothing but politics all his working life.
She is a rank and file Tory and views him as 'dangerous'.

Good enuff.

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Kafka9 · 19/04/2010 11:13

Media spin, it just DEPRESSES me. I am voting on the best outcome for this country, not what school, what wife or any other such nonsense.

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IndigoSky · 19/04/2010 11:26

It's all a load of poop though. Yes Nick Clegg and David Cameron went to pukka public schools. So what, I just don't get it. As Click says - it's the parents who choose the schools.

I did have a snort when I heard that Nick Clegg is being cast as the anti establishment figure. Check out this from his wikipedia entry...

"He attended Robinson College, Cambridge, after spending a gap year as a ski instructor in Austria and as an office junior in a Helsinki bank. At Cambridge, Clegg studied Archaeology and Anthropology.... In April 1994 he took up a post at the European Commission, working in the TACIS aid programme to the former Soviet Union. For two years he was responsible for developing direct aid programmes, worth €50.313 million, in Central Asia and the Caucasus.... Vice President and Trade Commissioner Leon Brittan then offered Clegg a job in his private office, as a European Union policy adviser and speech writer. As part of this role, Clegg was in charge of the EC negotiating team on Chinese and Russian accession talks to the World Trade Organisation....."

Hardly a radical anti establishment figure!

fembear · 19/04/2010 11:33

"he is a very impressive man who has done nothing but politics all his working life"

I thought we were coming to the conclusion that career-politicians were A Bad Thing.
Isn't that what Vince Cable trades on - his RL, outside-of-politics experience.

I heard a funny joke yesterday. VC has predicted 17 of the last 2 recessions.

bobthebuddha · 19/04/2010 11:44

jonicomelately, DH in his usual forthright manner says Clegg was a monumental drip.

jonicomelately · 19/04/2010 12:59

So he was a bit of a shagger then. Explains why a journo asked him how many people he'd slept with.

Can you imagine being one of the 'no more than 30' lot. Imagine having watch the debates with hubby.

Hubby: Darling, didn't you used to know to know NC?

Her: Fancy a cup of tea?

bobthebuddha · 19/04/2010 16:27

jonicomelately, that wasn't a journalist, that was Piers Morgan!

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