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While I dislike Nick Clegg for all of the reasons you have laid out, he’s arguably an appropriate hire for this role, regardless of one’s opinions of his politi
by giobox 8y ago
While I dislike Nick Clegg for all of the reasons you have laid out, he’s arguably an appropriate hire for this role, regardless of one’s opinions of his politics.
Facebook is facing potentially a lot of serious legislative recriminations following the Cambridge Analytica scandal etc. Hiring someone as familiar with European politics as Nick Clegg strikes me as a relatively sensible move, given his experiences as a British MP, Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, political party leader and former Member of the European Parliament, at least if you think impartially about the future challenges facing the company. A hire like this is as much for his Rolodex as anything else I suspect.
It’s arguably a little unfair to consider his political popularity as a measure of his ability, the political situation the Lib Dems found themselves in following the 2010 election was pretty complex.
- randomsearch 8y agoOn one level you could say that popularity amongst voters is the only metric that matters for a politician, but I agree there are other ways of evaluating a politician. I’d argue that Nick Clegg is a poor politician because he was outmanoeuvred by David Cameron (the PM to Clegg’s Deputy PM). The best example is the AV vote on introducing proportional representation, where Clegg was setup with a poor alternative that would be hard to sell, and the campaign was savaged by the Tories and their media allies from the start. And there are many other such examples.