Nick Clegg sided with Labour yesterday to block reform of the Commons and damage David Cameron’s re-election hopes.
In what senior Tories branded an act of treachery, the Liberal Democrats voted down plans they had once backed to redraw constituency boundaries. The shake-up would have given the Tories a 20-seat boost in 2015.
The Deputy Prime Minister was seen to be punishing his Coalition partners for rejecting reform of the House of Lords.
Tory MPs accused Mr Clegg of ‘spite’ and ‘bitterness’ as MPs voted by 334 votes to 292 to delay any change to boundaries until 2018 – a majority of 42.
It was the first time the Liberal Democrats have voted with Labour to destroy a piece of Government legislation.
Vengful: This is not the behaviour of a serious politician. It is the behaviour of a vengeful adolescent, Mr Clegg
In what senior Tories branded an act of treachery, the Liberal Democrats voted down plans they had once backed to redraw constituency boundaries. The shake-up would have given the Tories a 20-seat boost in 2015.
The Deputy Prime Minister was seen to be punishing his Coalition partners for rejecting reform of the House of Lords.
Tory MPs accused Mr Clegg of ‘spite’ and ‘bitterness’ as MPs voted by 334 votes to 292 to delay any change to boundaries until 2018 – a majority of 42.
It was the first time the Liberal Democrats have voted with Labour to destroy a piece of Government legislation.
Vengful: This is not the behaviour of a serious politician. It is the behaviour of a vengeful adolescent, Mr Clegg
The answer is almost literally incredible. He has done so through simple pique. He is peeved that some Tory backbenchers refused to support his House of Lords reforms last year. Those reforms would have made Parliament’s revising Chamber more democratic.
His response? He has thrown such a tantrum that the next parliament’s directly elected Chamber will be less democratic.
I This is not the behaviour of a serious politician. It is the behaviour of a vengeful adolescent.
I mean what a privileged, parasitic creep...who in his long pampered life has never had to get on a 73 bus. Talk about throwing your toys out of the pram, so we will
no doubt have another 5 years of disastrous Labour rule..the horror of being ruled by privileged wannabes...now where is my passport...I gotta get out of this place
(the UK) ...if it is the last thing I do.
Well in a democracy you have to leave it to the will of the people,,,,the 'wise' electorate, that is what is terrifying leaving it to the 'wise' electorate who don't know their arse from their elbow.
Now where is that passport...Australia...perhaps...France? no....they are bankrupt...look what the
idealistic dreamers of the left have done to that beautiful country....
The horror of being ruled by Labour again is quite unbearable...you just have to flee the UK, just as they are fleeing France.
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