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Conference: Cleggbites

By Alix Mortimer | Sun 14th September 2008 - 7:30 pm

A couple of gems from Clegg, both scripted and off the cuff, have made me chortle over the last couple of days.

Yesterday there was this from his rally speech:

The best George Osborne can offer is that Gordon has failed to “save for a rainy day”. Apparently George would “fix the roof while the sun is shining”. What is this? Just William? The Secret Seven?

Then this afternoon Clegg was grilled, unprepared, by party members in a Q&A. My personal highlight (the context was Cameron’s belief in trickle-down economics):

I don’t think people deserve to be trickled on

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