Interesting facts about Nick Clegg and David Cameron
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Nick Clegg is a joke. One of Groucho Marx's - "These are my opinions. If you
don't like them, I have others."
The Guardian newspaper mentioned an interesting fact recently, although it
was tucked away in the Review section. Apparently Nick Clegg, man of the
people, is the son of the chairman of Unity Trust Bank, specialists in
property finance. His family are probably somewhat richer than Cameron's
family - who are themselves connected with a leading firm of stockbrokers.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/02/conservative-party-elites-simon-head)
What baffles me is how they've managed to keep this so quiet. Given the UK
public's opinion of bankers at present, you'd think they'd both have been
pilloried throughout the media by now. I know most of the Tory front bench
used to be PR men, but this is incredible!
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Mel Rowing
> The Guardian newspaper mentioned an interesting fact recently, although it
> was tucked away in the Review section. Apparently Nick Clegg, man of the
> people, is the son of the chairman of Unity Trust Bank, specialists in
> property finance. His family are probably somewhat richer than Cameron's
> family - who are themselves connected with a leading firm of stockbrokers.
> (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/02/conservative-party-elites...)
>
> What baffles me is how they've managed to keep this so quiet. Given the UK
> public's opinion of bankers at present, you'd think they'd both have been
> pilloried throughout the media by now. I know most of the Tory front bench
> used to be PR men, but this is incredible!
Is there any overriding reason why the son of a financier should not
be leader of a political party?
Does wealth make them come out in spots or something?
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Fair enough, but it rather makes mincemeat of the way Clegg positions
himself as a "man of the people" and a counterbalance to the Tories.
I do also wonder quite how much reliance we can place on their promises to
get tough on City fat cats, if they know so many of them personally.
William Black
> Fair enough, but it rather makes mincemeat of the way Clegg positions
> himself as a "man of the people"
Eh!
His family are white Russian aristocrats on one side, Dutch colonial
planters on the other.
Educated at Westminster School and Cambridge where he was a pal of
Hellena Bonham Carter.
He speaks half a dozen languages, worked as a ski instructor in his gap
year, did a master's in the USA and got a job at the EC when he left Uni.
It's the almost exact profile expected of an upper middle-class rich kid.
The only surprise is that he went into politics instead of becoming a
very senior Euro bureaucrat followed by academia with a couple of seats
on government committees and regular appearances on Newsnight as an
expert on something or other...
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William Black
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Roger Dewhurst
> On 09/11/10 22:21, A B wrote:
>
>> Fair enough, but it rather makes mincemeat of the way Clegg positions
>> himself as a "man of the people"
>
> Eh!
>
> His family are white Russian aristocrats on one side, Dutch colonial
> planters on the other.
Where does the name 'Clegg' come from?
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Harry Merrick
> I never thought I'd say this, but David Cameron was right about one
> thing... Nick Clegg is a joke. One of Groucho Marx's - "These are my
> opinions. If you don't like them, I have others."
>
> The Guardian newspaper mentioned an interesting fact recently,
> although it was tucked away in the Review section. Apparently Nick
> Clegg, man of the people, is the son of the chairman of Unity Trust
> Bank, specialists in property finance. His family are probably
> somewhat richer than Cameron's family - who are themselves connected
> with a leading firm of stockbrokers.
> (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/02/conservative-party-elites-simon-head)
>
> What baffles me is how they've managed to keep this so quiet. Given
> the UK public's opinion of bankers at present, you'd think they'd
> both have been pilloried throughout the media by now. I know most of
> the Tory front bench used to be PR men, but this is incredible!
LOL!! Where *have* you been?? This is surely general knowledge known for a
considerable time. It is a non-story at this point. Why on earth would they
be pilloried by the media? In an case, what difference does it make how rich
their families are, or what they do??
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Harry Merrick.
AlanG
<dewh...@wave.co.nz> wrote:
>On 10/11/2010 11:43 a.m., William Black wrote:
>> On 09/11/10 22:21, A B wrote:
>>
>>> Fair enough, but it rather makes mincemeat of the way Clegg positions
>>> himself as a "man of the people"
>>
>> Eh!
>>
>> His family are white Russian aristocrats on one side, Dutch colonial
>> planters on the other.
>
>Where does the name 'Clegg' come from?
>
According to the writer Russel Thorndyke it is the name of a species
of horsefly and a pirate in his books
http://tinyurl.com/2wnjcc9
William Black
> On 10/11/2010 11:43 a.m., William Black wrote:
>> On 09/11/10 22:21, A B wrote:
>>
>>> Fair enough, but it rather makes mincemeat of the way Clegg positions
>>> himself as a "man of the people"
>>
>> Eh!
>>
>> His family are white Russian aristocrats on one side, Dutch colonial
>> planters on the other.
>
> Where does the name 'Clegg' come from?
His paternal grandfather.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/familyhistory/3355395/Family-detective-Nick-Clegg.html
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One or two millionaires in the Government would be one thing. But when the
majority of the Cabinet are people who have never, ever known what it is to
need money, well... then you get things like the "Big Society" initiative.
Not that it isn't a nice idea in principle. But if Cameron seriously thinks
that so many people have time on their hands that he can double the
volunteering rate with a few vague exhortations, that only goes to show that
Eton's curriculum doesn't include "how the other half live". I heard that
14 of the current Cabinet are Old Etonians, and 18 are millionaires. Talk
about diversity!