Archive for Our Scotland - www.our-scotland.org Scottish Politics Discussion Forum / Messageboard - Dedicated to online discussion about Scottish Politics and an Independent Scotland, as well as Scottish Society today. We also have a section dedicated to Banter, Sport and Recommended Sites.
|
agentmancuso
|
Nick Clegg's reactionNick Clegg had the following reaction to the Liberal Democrats ' success in pushing Labour into 3rd place in the English & Welsh local elections:
From Politics.co.uk
| Quote: | Nick Clegg has claimed that the Liberal Democrats did "exceptionally well" in last night's local elections.
The Liberal Democrats have pushed Labour into third place overall with 25 per cent of the vote share compared to Labour's 24 per cent and the Conservatives' 44 per cent.
The elections are the first real test of Mr Clegg's leadership, after taking over from Sir Menzies Campbell in December last year.
"It is a very strong result. We have increased the number of councillors when I was being told for the last several weeks that we were almost certainly going to lose councillors," Mr Clegg told a BBC reporter.
"We have outpolled Labour for only the second time in our party's history, and crucially we have been winning against both Labour and the Conservatives."
Earlier this morning the Lib Dem leader claimed he was "proud" of the progress his party had made, despite falling short of its performance in 2004.
© 2008 www.politics.co.uk . |
|
Aventinian
|
I don't really think Clegg has anything to do with it. He's been almost entirely off the radar since he gained the leadership.He was probably the best of the leadership candidates, but he's so very dull.
All the same, I'm glad to see the second best party in British politics take its rightful place.
|
agentmancuso
|
| Aventinian wrote: | | I don't really think Clegg has anything to do with it. |
Ha, no of course he didn't. But the press were itching to run a barrage of 'Clegg fails first test' stories if we had lost any ground at all, when it would have had equally little to do with him personally.
| Quote: | | All the same, I'm glad to see the second best party in British politics take its rightful place. |
Victory brings magnaminity.
|
|
|
|