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  Nick Clegg and the Politics of Envy

   

  via Iain Dale's Diary by noreply@blogger.com (Iain Dale) on May 10, 2008

  Yet again, the Liberal Democrat Leader has displayed his immaturity. Jonathan Isaby reports that during a visit to the Crewe & Nantwich by-election he said this...
  

  “Unlike the multi-millionaire Conservative candidate, our candidate Elizabeth Shenton is actually hit by the doubling of the 10p tax rate.”

  
  This provokes a number of comments...
  

  • Nick Clegg is a millionaire himself, as I think he admitted in his GQ interview
  • The man he beat in the LibDem leadership contest, Chris Huhne, is a multi millionaire
  • If we were in America we would be hailing the fact that a successful man wants to stand for political office

  I don't know what the background of the LibDem candidate is and from a financial viewpoint I don't really care. I am sure that she genuinely feels the 10p tax rate abolition was wrong, just as I am sure Edward Timpson does. Just because someone isn't directly affected by a tax change, it doesn't mean you don't understand its effects. Part of the reason Labour lost so badly last week was because hundreds of thousands of richer people looked at the 10p tax issue and decided it was wrong, even though they themselves benefitted from the 2p drop on the basic rate.
  
  Nick Clegg's cheap little attack has achieved only two things - to make him look a little cheap and a tad hypocritical.

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