Nick Clegg’s certainly proving his worth as a newsmaker; something the Lib Dems have lacked in recent times. After his we-could-possibly-enter-a-coalition-with-the-Tories revelation in the FT, he has a very-readable piece in today’s Times on “how to stop future funding scandals”. The article’s more noteworthy for it’s punchiness than for its ideas (although Clegg does recommend that non-doms should be banned from “taking a position in Parliament”). And it neatly keys into the consensus that recent scandals relate to politics as a whole, whilst subtly reminding us that the Lib Dems have remained largely untainted by it all:
“The Derek Conway affair is not the first, nor likely to be the last, in a long line of political scandals over money. While such scandals have formed a steady trickle for generations, the floodgates seemed to open 18 months ago with the cash-for-peerages investigation. It may be tempting for politicians to argue that each scandal is separate from the others, but the British people simply don’t see it that way.
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