[Malcolm Armsteen]

Confirms my view of most journalists. Lazy stuff.

[The Weeping Angel]

I see Clegg has offered his views on domestic violence

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[lord_kobel]

The loyal slave learns to love the lash.

[Winegums]

To be fair I think it's a bit tedious asking him to comment. No politician is going to publicly support domestic abuse even if they believed it was fine and reasonable. It's like when the London riots happened and every politician tediously begun their spiel with "I'd like to say I don't condone the riots...". Boring and redundant.

[satnav]

I think Clegg is on a hiding to nothing with his radio show because if he says anything good it is unlikely to be reported but if he slips up the right wing press crucify him.

[Andy McDandy]

He's looking at his future career. If he doesn't get a Euro Commissioner job or a directorship or two, there's always being the butt monkey on HIGNFY/Would I Lie to You etc. Pays just as well as any other guest, after all.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

To be fair I think it's a bit tedious asking him to comment. No politician is going to publicly support domestic abuse even if they believed it was fine and reasonable. It's like when the London riots happened and every politician tediously begun their spiel with "I'd like to say I don't condone the riots...". Boring and redundant.

Absolutely. But on the other hand he (or his advisors, who are legion) should have anticipated the question and prepared an answer.
Either he doesn't do the very basic things (too lazy?) or he can't recall the prepared answers (too thick?).

Blair and Thatcher were the masters of that skill.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Clegg has been awful at PMQs, so no surprise he messed this up. Laziness, I should think.

[youngian]

He's looking at his future career. If he doesn't get a Euro Commissioner job or a directorship or two, there's always being the butt monkey on HIGNFY/Would I Lie to You etc. Pays just as well as any other guest, after all.

He could still fulfill his main ambition to be the British Hans Dietrich Genscher. In other words by cutting a deal in 2015 with whoever will make him foreign secretary for the next two decades.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He didn't even get a department last time.

[The Weeping Angel]

He didn't even get a department last time.

Exactly he didn't Clegg sold the Lib Dems down the river in exchange for a non-job. BTW has anyone read that Adonis book on the coalition? Clegg apparently doesn't come out of it very well

[Abernathy]

...... and Peter Bone and his chums want to abolish Clegg's job.

[The Weeping Angel]

Shall Labour let them?

[Esqui]

What exactly does he do, other than host a radio show, agree with everything the Tories do except for the odd "I disagree with the Tories on this non-important issue and we won't let them get it through because we are coalition partners"?

[The Weeping Angel]

What exactly does he do, other than host a radio show, agree with everything the Tories do except for the odd "I disagree with the Tories on this non-important issue and we won't let them get it through because we are coalition partners"?

Fuck all