Next Tory Leader.

It is a crime to earn a good salary so you can pay lots of tax to support public services.

Nick Clegg you selfish man. Go on the dole.

Try reading what I posted ab before you jump on the bandwagon.

maryeliza I have done as you asked, you did not condemn Clegg for taking another job , I apologise

Thanks ab I appreciate that - I’m not being sarcastic honestly. I’m still feeling a bit sore after yesterday and another snide comment this morning.

I agree upthread Nick was in a difficult position and used by Cameron

Never mind the tuition fees debacle. I can’t forgive Nick Clegg for making me a WASPI - he and the Lib Dems brought forward the pension change by a full 10 years during the times of austerity - to the delight of his Tory stablemates.

Politicians are real people with families to support and the fact that large companies are prepared to offer jobs and pay them well suggests they think if they can function in the mad house that is Parliament that they can deal with anything. Some are recruited for their contacts, but nowadays anyone working for a big company at a senior level is expected to bring more to the job than contacts.

I can think of no good reason why ex politicians should have to be more noble and self sacrificing in their choice of jobs than anyone else. An awful lot of people work for Facebook, Amazon, M&S, etc etc. Why should politicians not work for them. They are meant to be men and women of the people.

The significant thing is that no one has offered David Cameron a job and it will be interesting to see what happens to Teresa May if she chooses to leave Parliament, although as she is in her early 60s and will almost certainly see this Parliament out, she could always opt for early retirement.

Brown didn’t

There will always be an exception to any rule.

The significant thing is that no one has offered David Cameron a job

David Cameron doesn't need a job, though; he's wealthy enough to do without one. He can earn squillions for one after dinner speech, of course, though why people want to listen to the man who broke the UK is completely beyond me. He does need a time filler though, I believe he's getting a bit bored...

Teresa May ........ could always opt for early retirement

I'm sure the WASPI women will see the irony in that...

There’s nothing wrong MO in having expectations that a politician particularly given much of what he said he stood for, could have made a contribution to our society in his post political career. He has a high earning wife which also gives him a cushion which many people affected by austerity do not have the benefit of.

We don’t know what jobs DC has been offered - all we know is that he seems to have been concentrating on his memoirs and as MD says lucrative speaking engagements.

I have seen suggestions that he concentrates on his speaking engagements because of the lack of offers from elsewhere.

And, as I said, it doesn't look as if there is much interest in his memoirs - and they haven't even been published yet.

Why should a high earning wife mean that a man shoudn't want to earn as much as her. Turn the genders around, isn't one of the things that women have fought against over the years, been that the wife of a high earning man shouldn't have an equally high earning career and should devote herself to the three Ks. If we have objected to that why should men not.

Oh stop twisting what I said MO.

Anyone who went to Eton probably doesn’t need to work.

He will get offered board directorships and maybe newspaper work like Osborne

Well, he hasn't yet and he has been gone two years. osborne had about three jobs within weeks of steppig down and Clegg has been in post for about six months.

I think that is a very sweeping statement about those educated at Eton. Some families make enormous sacrifices to pay fees at schools like that and a quite a number of boys are there on scholarships, including several reserved from boys from state primaries.

MOnica what are the 3 k’s please?

I can think of kids, maybe kitchens. ....?

Good point actually.

And regards DC, yes he might be loaded but he probably wants something to do. Most people would at his age (I would be the exception to that rule though!).

Exactly, just because you don’t need to work doesn’t mean you don’t want to, men especially define themselves by their
Work status.
FB is not the devil incarnate, and perhaps Clegg can do things to make it better anyway.

Rory Stewart for me, but I think it's a forlorn hope. He sounds so sensible and speaks in a calm measured fashion, but he's probably too young and not to the party's liking.
Loved the diary excerpts Lemon!!??

Johnson is to appear in court. So they must consider that he has a case to answer.

Lies and misconduct.

Our next PM?

I only speak for myself but as a longstanding member of the party, I have never heard any LibDem member say such a thing, although some voters were not happy.
I am not a LD party member but vote for them most of the time - to say that some voters were not happy is an under-statement to say the least - they disappeared practically without trace after throwing their lot in with the Tories!!

Nick Clegg can take whatever job he chooses after leaving politics but his choice of job does say a lot about him.

but he's probably too young
He's 46 so wouldn't be the youngest by any means - Blair and Cameron were younger and Major not much older.

There have been many even younger over the centuries.

Urmstongran
the three Ks are Kinder, Küche, Kirche
children, kitchen, church
!
barefoot and pregnant, chained to the kitchen sink

FB is not the devil incarnate, and perhaps Clegg can do things to make it better anyway.
let's hope so!

Johnson may go to prison. Surely, he can't hope to win Tory Leadership?