Nick Clegg on the Royal birth: “Good news to make the whole country smile”

By The Voice | Tue 23rd July 2013 - 8:45 am

Here’s how Lib Dem MPs responded to the news of the new addition to the Royal Family…

Congratulations to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Good news to make the whole country smile

— Nick Clegg (@nick_clegg) July 22, 2013

Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the arrival of their baby boy!

— Michael Moore (@MichaelMooreMP) July 22, 2013

Some kid's just been born but more excitingly I apparently just appeared in University Challenge #albeitonlyinquestionform

— Mike Crockart MP (@CrockartMP) July 22, 2013

Asked Royal College of Midwives @MidwivesRCM at meeting in my office for latest on Royal birth. There was a pregnant pause…! #RoyalBaby

— Andrew George (@AndrewGeorgeLD) July 22, 2013

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11 Comments

Steve 23rd Jul '13 - 9:56am

Why would it make me smile any more than the other 2000 babies born yesterday? What a bizarre thing to say.
Martin 23rd Jul '13 - 10:12am

Here’s one young man who won’t be needing help from the Coalition’s Youth Contract!
Simon Titley 23rd Jul '13 - 10:15am

Experiencing the British media today is like wading through treacle.

Is it too much to ask for Liberal Democrat Voice to steer clear of this sycophancy?
Terry G 23rd Jul '13 - 10:21am

I thought it was an unusually clever way for Clegg to address the fact that very few people bare them any real personal animosity, but half the country couldn’t care less, while a significant thinking minority is inclined to think the same way as Stephen Tall. But maybe I’m giving him too much credit?
Alistair 23rd Jul '13 - 2:15pm

Finally a baby has been born who has proved you *can* be too posh to lead the Tory party 😉
bcrombie 23rd Jul '13 - 2:32pm

I am not smiling – more wincing in embarrassment
Graham Martin-Royle 23rd Jul '13 - 2:45pm

Sorry Nick, but you’re not speaking for me.
Tony Dawson 23rd Jul '13 - 7:30pm

Politicians of all colours should be imprisoned for making pathetic populist remarks of this nature. What on earth has it got to do with them?
Denis 24th Jul '13 - 8:35am

Nothing like an occasion of this nature to bring out the usual bile from the usual suspects.

Sure the coverage has been overdone but the fact is that the monarchy is a uniting institution which a great majority of our people are quite happy to pay a few quid to maintain. Many did manage a smile when the new royal mite appeared. Live with that and move on guys. There are plenty of other causes to tackle such as saving our position in Europe.
Ian Sanderson (RM3) 24th Jul '13 - 10:06pm

I see the infant prince and is parents as perhaps surrogates for the other 2000. It’s harder to identify with 2000 babies rather than one. Our local paper sometimes publishes a whole page of tiny baby photos, but it’s hard to relate to that.
We can relate to one and to the joy of his parents and to see in them the hope and fears that all families can have.
nvelope2003 26th Jul '13 - 11:34am

Some of the comments seem to have been removed – I wonder why ?