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July 15, 2012 12:17 pm

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The Independent today Nick Clegg telling the Social Liberal Forum Conference that:

“I have had it with apologising”

Which is odd, as I can’t remember Clegg apologising much.

Did he apologise for dismantling the NHS?

Or backing an economic policy that his party opposed before the election?

Did he apologise for betraying students by trebling tuition fees perhaps?

No.

Nick Clegg – a man who’s sick of apologising before he’s even started…

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  • http://twitter.com/MatthewSDent Matthew S. Dent

    He must get on very well with Bob Diamond, in that case…

  • Amber Star

    He’s probably sick of apologising to Cameron & Osborne for his Party not being quite as Tory as Clegg & Laws are.

    • treborc

      I really do feel sorry for the Liberals third best in the country and second best in the Tories.

  • Dave Postles
    • treborc

      I agree with the banks on this one.

  • Daniel Speight

    An interesting link Dave. It points to how many chancers, hustlers and spivs have been encouraged into the a market of what should have been government supplied services.

    Here we have Eco-Actif run by Amanda Palmer-Roye in Sutton, Surrey servicing the disadvantaged in SE London. This operator is at times contracted to 3SC, which itself is contracted to A4e.

    When you throw in the likes of the PFIs you begin to see that an awful lot our so called public sector costs are actually going into the pockets of those favoured by our political class. That favouring can be worth a great deal, just ask Emma Harrison about the 8.6 million she personally earned out it.

    Some bubbles may have burst, but there’s still plenty of this purple* market money sloshing around.

    * Needed a new colour as gray and black didn’t quite fit. I’m using purple in honour of Sainsbury’s Progress.

    ** Should have been in reply to Dave’s comment below.

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