- Sun Apr 14, 2013 2:45 pm
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Speaking of benefits, Clegg has stepped in to fight IDS' corner. Thanks Nick.
Anyone who considers themselves on the left and still votes Lib Dem needs to ask themselves some serious questions.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -plan.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;NICK Clegg has stepped in TWICE to save Iain Duncan Smith’s Universal Credit welfare revolution from the chop, The Sun can reveal.
Treasury officials have repeatedly tried to scrap the sweeping benefits overhaul or delay it until after the 2015 election.
Chancellor George Osborne and his aides have deep fears over its spiralling £2billion costs and whether a huge new computer system will work.
Deputy PM Mr Clegg first came to its rescue in 2010, then again late last year, Lib Dem sources have revealed.
A senior Whitehall source said: “Nick is a huge backer.
“He believes it is the most important thing the Coalition is doing to get people out of the benefits trap.
“But Iain now has a big job to make sure the complex computer system works.”
Anyone who considers themselves on the left and still votes Lib Dem needs to ask themselves some serious questions.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.