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Indecision Internationale 2010: Taking a Dump on Nick Clegg

POSTED BY: Rich Johnston

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Most of the main newspapers in Britain are conservative ones — and conservative in the way that make Fox News look like Air America. And, today, all the front pages of all these newspapers, selling millions of copies across the country, have been going to war with Nick Clegg. Waking up to them, his wife might as well have tipped his breakfast in bed over his head (including the scalding coffee) as hand him the papers.

Old warhorse, The Daily Mail led with a front page splash "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1267921/GENERAL-ELECTION-2010-Nick-Clegg-Nazi-slur-Britain.html">Clegg Nazi Slur on Britain" and referred to an eight-year-old newspaper article it had unearthed in which Clegg talked of Britain, saying: "A misplaced sense of superiority, sustained by delusions of grandeur and a tenacious obsession with the last war, is much harder to shake off. We need to be put back in our place." That, however, wasn't good enough for The Mail. It unloaded two further barrels into the Clegg camapign, first alleging that Clegg had accepted payments from donors for his own personal bank account http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1267873/GENERAL-ELECTION-2010-Nick-Clegg-received-donations-directly-bank-account.html">to pay towards a researcher, and then that Hilary Stephenson — Mr Clegg's campaigns and elections director — was responsible for http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1267835/General-Election-2010-Lib-Dem-MPs-told-milk-expenses-leaks-reveal.html">encouraging expenses scams.


None of these were what you could call new stories, but Nick Clegg's sudden rise to ascendancy had forced The Daily Mail to dig deep and get desperate. And it was not alone. The Daily Telegraph led with the donors story, while The Daily Express had "http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/170690">Cleggs's Crazy Immigration Policy," which outlined his desire to let those seeking asylum in Britain work while waiting for their case to be addressed. Meanwhile, The Sun called him a "http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/22/nick-clegg-denies-wrongdoing-payments">Wobble Democrat" over Afghanistan and immigration policy, with a later edition re-imagined as "Fried Clegg."

Those amusing headlines that The Daily Show uses? Business as usual for the front pages of UK newspapers. Although what wasn't business as usual was James Murdoch and Sun representatives http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/448/will-murdoch-lose-britain.html">storming The Independent newspaper earlier today to complain against The Independent's attacks on The Sun's partisan covering of the election so far. A partisan nature that they've http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2661063/The-Sun-Says-Labours-lost-it.html">previously taken pride in.

Which is the equivalent of a troll finishing his rendition of "I'm a troll, fol-de-rol" for the sixty-eight time and then getting incensed when someone calls him a troll.

More: http://www.indecisionforever.com/2010/04/22/indecision-internationale-2010-taking-a-dump-on-nick-clegg/

Jon Stewart Schools the UK on Elections

From Indecision…

Evidently there's an election going on in England right now and they're trying to import some tactics from the US. But as Jon Stewart pointed out on last night's Daily Show, the Brits have a long way to go if they want to truly capture the pure uncut shamelessness of American politics. Still, the British have made a lot of progress (with a long "O" sound) since the days not long ago when all elections were decided solely by monocle size.
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/04/22/jon-stewart-schools-the-uk-on-elections/