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

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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

"I think they have an air of general entitlement hanging over them, that Clegg doesn't seem to have."

is it genuine or is it because he is a consummate actor in the mould of that master thespian, Anthony Lynton Blair?
Has he mastered the art of looking directly into the camera during the debates and remembering to address the questioning public by their first names? Has he learnt his lines better than GBH?

The Times tells us of his University acting career

"He achieved his greatest fame among his fellow students in productions such as Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by the precocious Sam Mendes. ?It was probably pretty dreadful,? remembers Ian Kelly, a fellow actor who was at Trinity Hall.

?Please don?t make him out to be some luvvie . . . It was ideas and people that led him to some stage work, some of it political theatre, there?s nothing put on about him on camera. That?s Nick, he was very comfortable in his skin then as now ? perhaps that?s what people respond to.?

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7103324.ece

Sheffield Hallam is a v. wealthy seat - Northern equivalent of stockbroker belt. All lawyers and accountants.

To go back to an earlier part of the thread, I'm fascinated by NC's assertion that he has no recollection of joining CUCA (Cambridge University Conservative Association). I was at Cambridge at the same time as him and a couple of my friends were members of CUCA. I don't think you could "forget" that you were a member of CUCA. Certainly from my own recollection, they sent out a lot of literature to their members throughout the term, and towards the end of each term their members were constantly canvassed by CUCA hacks who wanted their vote in the termly CUCA elections. I don't really understand how NC could not have remembered this - I certainly do.

Actually I don't really care whether or not he was a member of CUCA, I'm slightly more concerned about his selective amnesia.

I do think it is odd that there are people in this world who would find Clegg shady or suspect because he was in a university play, once. It makes my head spin.

Do you remember how they used to say Obama was dodgy because he'd written a book and was an intellectual and a community organiser too. The horror.

I love the bit at the end about how he made an email mistake to some friends - which could therefore make one nervous about his diplomacy skills. LOL.

WilfandWilma, someone pointed out much earlier in this thread that many Cambridge students became members of all the political organisations in order to be able to attend all the functions - it didn't indicate a particular affiliation, & was not necessarily significant to the individual concerned.

He is 43 (???) after all so this was c 25 years ago. I have almost total non-recall of what I did last week, never mind that long ago...

edam:
Actually, there are an awful lot of teachers, creative arts people, university lecturers and public sector workers too! DW and I included! (Now...) But I agree it is one of the most "middle-class" seats you will find anywhere in the north of England - maybe the most apart from Cheshire's Tatton.

Noooooooooooooo. Just parachuted in to say, I am the only and original Wilf, and can categorically state that I did not go to Cambridge. Would perhaps have been much more successful if I had