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by Macha2 hours ago |
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upvoteby KaiserPro1 hours ago|
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> Clegg later held the same position

Clegg was more senior than wynn-williams. Kaplan reported to Clegg

I don't think Clegg will do something like that, because its not really in his way of doing things. He is extraordinarily well connected, and is currently riding the board of directors gravy train.

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upvoteby khurs14 minutes ago|
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His wife registered a political party in Spain last week funnily enough, she wants to be PM of Spain!

https://euroweeklynews.com/2026/06/26/nick-cleggs-wife-regis...

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upvoteby TheOtherHobbes1 hours ago|
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Always was. Clegg is notorious for getting the Tories into power in 2010 by promising some basic decency, then betraying those promises to prop up the regime responsible for austerity.

He's always been an operator. Moving to Meta after he left politics was an "Oh, of course."

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upvoteby KaiserPro25 minutes ago|
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> then betraying those promises to prop up the regime

I mean thats one way to look at it. Another way was, the lib dems traded everything for the chance to change the voting from FPP to proportional representation, and failed.

Yes, he went back on tuition fees, and worse still wasn't able to make it a graduate tax (hence the stupid loan system)

but the gamble was that, and it was clear at the time.

unlucky for the libdems was they didn't get PR and got blamed for the tories being shites, and were wiped out accordingly.

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upvoteby nailer33 minutes ago|
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Hrm. Labour was vastly unpopular. The biggest power move the LibDems could do was install preferential voting (which would harm the two party system by allowing eg

  1 minor party 
  2 major party 
  3 other major party
...preference votes), and the British public (stupidly, but that is their decision) rejected it. He couldn't eg freeze tuition fees because the LibDems were a junior partner in the coalition. The vote on preferential voting was far more significant, if the LibDems could pick one of the other, it was right to pick preferential voting.

The British public blew it, because they bizarrely chose to have less of their own voting intentions recorded.

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upvoteby dofm1 hours ago|
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I think the story about the Trump decision is likely to have a politically explosive aspect to it.

Because Zuckerberg had dragged his feet about creating the board until they needed the board in order to launder a decision they knew they might need to make.

But he wasn't just the oversight board; he was president of global affairs for three-odd years.

I don't intend to give Clegg credit, particularly. I'm not a fan. I'm just saying that people like him write books and he will surely have been approached to do so.

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