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Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg author of "How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)" was a Brexit advocate?

blibble 1y ago
he 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 ago
  Supporting a referendum on EU membership and advocating for Brexit are not the same thing.
- polka_haunts_us 1y ago
  The 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 ago
    that strategy worked great for the Tories
    - polka_haunts_us 1y ago
      The 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

he 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 ago
Supporting a referendum on EU membership and advocating for Brexit are not the same thing.
polka_haunts_us 1y ago
The 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 ago
  that strategy worked great for the Tories
  - polka_haunts_us 1y ago
    The 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