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Clegg says State schools are not good enough for his kids

By John Hirst

Clegg says State schools are not good enough for his kids

Nick "Cactus" Clegg lied when he made this statement: "I am a father before a politician", in trying to defend his decision that State schools are ok for other kids but are not good enough for his own. A quick Google search to Clegg's wikipedia entry shows that he was in fact a politician before he became a father. Admittedly, I am nit picking, however, schools and nit picking go hand in hand.

Nich Starling, Norfolk Blogger, a LibDem supporter, states: "Sheffield, where Nick Clegg has his constituency, is a Lib Dem run council, it is, therefore, a Lib Dem run education authority. If the schools are not good enough there, technically, the Lib Dems will be at fault". It's a fair point.

This, just like the cactus, is a prickly subject...

Mr Clegg, who had the benefit of a private education himself: "As a 16-year-old exchange student in Munich, he performed community service for a minor case of criminal damage: he and a friend burned some cacti belonging to a professor". I suppose it makes a change from those Bullingdon Club twunts Cameron and Boris Johnson, trashing restaurants in Oxford...

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on September 14, 2008 (boomark / email).