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Nick Clegg: If the people who ran FB were monsters, I wouldn't have worked there
- biglyburrito 1y agoKeep in mind that this guy was a Brexit advocate. He was also "hired [by Facebook] as a lobbyist and public relations officer". So yeah, this is exactly something I'd expect a paid hack to say.
- orionblastar 1y agoYou mean this is not grass roots but astroturf?
- techpineapple 1y ago“I got paid 100 million dollars to launder the reputation of monsters, and I’d do it again” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
- pinewurst 1y ago"If Satan was such a bad guy, I would've never sold my soul to him!"
- digianarchist 1y agoLiberal Democrat Nick Clegg author of "How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)" was a Brexit advocate?
- blibble 1y agohe directly supported an in-out referendum, at the point he thought it would get him into power https://www.libdemvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Clegg-referendum-leaflet-lisbon-2008.jpg https://www.libdemvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Clegg... (the leaflet is complete gold, he even criticises the tories for not offering a proper one) there was also this amazing speech by him: https://youtu.be/cDcR_6x7GgI?t=812 https://youtu.be/cDcR_6x7GgI?t=812 which is exactly what he then did after he lost the referendum, just like his japanese soldiers the man is a total hypocrite of the highest order
- digianarchist 1y agoSupporting a referendum on EU membership and advocating for Brexit are not the same thing.
- polka_haunts_us 1y agoThe whole point of the Lib Dems supporting an in-out referendum was that in the event they were actually elected to power and therefore able to enact their platform, the UK would be in a state where they would obviously support "in" because the only people who would ever vote for the Lib Dems were people who were EU maximalists.
- blibble 1y agothat strategy worked great for the Tories
- polka_haunts_us 1y agoThe Tories were notably not a EU maximalist party and the only reason they added support for an in-out referendum was due to pressure from the side of the party who wanted "out". The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about. I'm not really sure why you're bringing them up.
- blibble 1y ago> The Tories were notably not a EU maximalist party funny, I distinctly remember the party spending a vast amount of money trying to get the British to vote Remain > The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about. you're... the one responding to my sub-thread, where I mentioned them in my first post the tory connection is obviously relevant to Clegg's political career, where his main accomplishment was working with them, destroying his own party in the process
- blibble 1y agoI am convinced facebook didn't realise that Clegg was only part of a minor third party he ended up as "deputy PM" (itself a made up job), due to a 1 in 100 election quirk of the system they thought they were getting the Obama's administration's Biden but no, he was the Jill Stein
- digianarchist 1y agoHung parliaments are not a "1 in 100 electoral quirk" they've happened multiple times in the last 100 years.
- treetalker 1y agoI don't work for monsters. I worked for the people who ran Facebook. Therefore the people who ran Facebook weren't monsters. QED!
- oriettaxx 1y agoA mafia's member could have said the same. The majority are pretty idiots (much more then pictured in movies), but some who pretend to have some ethics think, for example, that thanks to the mafia italy did not became a communist country (it's not my own opinion, it's history... they really do!)
- mna_ 1y agoThis is the guy who did nothing while his buddy, Cameron, enacted austerity measures that have destroyed the nation. He's a monster.
- JohnFen 1y agoSo he says (and maybe even thinks), but the people who run Facebook are monsters.