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Deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg speaks in London January 7, 2011. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid/POOL

Deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg.

Credit: Reuters/Peter Macdiarmid/POOL

LONDON | Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:21pm GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told an interviewer on Thursday he had "forgotten" he was in charge of the country while David Cameron is on a Middle East tour.

The Liberal Democrat leader was asked by the Metro free newspaper whether he was in charge in Cameron's absence.

"Yeah, I suppose I am. I forgot about that," he replied.

"I'm holding the fort but I'm hoping to take the end of the week off with my kids," he added.

"Someone else will have to do it then. It sounds more haphazard than it probably is. People forget there are emails and there is BlackBerry."

Clegg's relaxed attitude was also in the news last month when it emerged that officials had been asked not to put papers into his ministerial box after 3 p.m.

Clegg's spokeswoman dismissed his remark about who was in charge as a joke and Cameron himself said it was a "throwaway remark."

"Just because I leave the country doesn't mean I am not in charge," Cameron told Sky News in Oman.

(London newsroom).

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slimfernMember VIP

Paul

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You can call me Rach too.

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Racquel and Penelope

* sticks on the Barry White *

Smarting ButtocksMember

I thought Cleggy clocked off at 3pm.

slimfernMember VIP

Originally Posted by velvet donkey:

Racquel and Penelope

* sticks on the Barry White *

Int he dead

Former Member

Originally Posted by Smarting Buttocks:

I thought Cleggy clocked off at 3pm.

He does Monday - Friday 3pm then he is outta there.
Had to do a bit of OT as Cameron was out of the country.

kattymieowwMember 10 years

Gawd the Lib Dems have really sold out...We have the Scottish parliament elections this May.Normally the Lib Dems do okay up here.(Borders/Highlands)They are usually the alternative vote to Labour instead of the Tories.We have list elections though..the only way you see a Tory at Holyrood..

Former Member

We have list elections though..the only way you see a Tory at Holyrood..

I agree ,the Lib Dems are dead in the water this May.

Smarting ButtocksMember

Originally Posted by kattymieoww:

Gawd the Lib Dems have really sold out..

They have certainly lost the student vote.

Rocking Ros RoseMember 10 years

Originally Posted by Smarting Buttocks:

Originally Posted by kattymieoww:

Gawd the Lib Dems have really sold out..

They have certainly lost the student vote.

yes they have

Former Member

Right, the revolution starts at 3.15 next Friday ..

Former Member

Its a bliddy disgrace.
See you there Slinki

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Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:

Right, the revolution starts at 3.15 next Friday ..

Names in the little black book

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Originally Posted by sproooot:

Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:

Right, the revolution starts at 3.15 next Friday ..

Names in the little black book

Not the little red book?

Former Member

I hope I can get over the border with my bin lid and stick.

Former Member

Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:

Originally Posted by sproooot:

Originally Posted by Slinkiwitch x:

Right, the revolution starts at 3.15 next Friday ..

Names in the little black book

Not the little red book?

Either one

Depends what they've got in stock

Former Member

Originally Posted by erinp:

I hope I can get over the border with my bin lid and stick.

! Those plastic bin lids don't cut it, eh ?

Former Member

Mine's an old tin lid I'll have you know

galvanised dustbin

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oooh ,that'll kick up a right old racket!

*heads to B and Q*

CarnelianMember 10 years

Clegg's a pathetic national joke. Clearly years cosseted on the Euro gravy train, leading a party that never expected to enact its policies and the establishment Westminster public school sense of entitlement has made for a career politician who is nothing more than a glorified toast master and sales man who feels little obligation to anyone. Clegg is a bullshit artist, upper class twit who's been fast tracked well beyond his competences. Clegg's main achievement seems to be to make Cameron look good by comparison.

How the hell can you 'forget' you're supposed to running the country? It's pathetic.

MargueritaMember

All I can say is god help us

MargueritaMember

Carnelian I love reading your posts

CarnelianMember 10 years

Thanks Marguerita, I sound a bit unhinged on quite a few of them!

MargueritaMember

Originally Posted by Carnelian:

Thanks Marguerita, I sound a bit unhinged on quite a few of them!

They are always spot on and very sensible

KayteeMember 10 years

I only hope that now that the Libs have lost the student vote, we can get rid of the lousy Lib council we have here and be able to stuff the Lib MP into one of the many recycling bins that litter our streets...and send him to landfill.

~Lee~Member

Originally Posted by Marguerita:

All I can say is god help us

They keep going the way they are Marg they could have an uprising on their hands.

Extremely Fluffy Fluffy ThingMember VIP10 yearsModerator

I don't think much of either of them really. TBH I think Labour had a lucky escape by NOT being involved in a coalition .... and I don't particularly think much of Labour either!

MargueritaMember

Originally Posted by ~Lee~:

Originally Posted by Marguerita:

All I can say is god help us

They keep going the way they are Marg they could have an uprising on their hands.

Lee

KayteeMember 10 years

Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:

I don't think much of either of them really. TBH I think Labour had a lucky escape by NOT being involved in a coalition .... and I don't particularly think much of Labour either!

I think that's the problem Fluffs.....it's difficult to approve of ANY of them, from whichever side of the political divide

Rocking Ros RoseMember 10 years

Originally Posted by Carnelian:

Clegg's a pathetic national joke. Clearly years cosseted on the Euro gravy train, leading a party that never expected to enact its policies and the establishment Westminster public school sense of entitlement has made for a career politician who is nothing more than a glorified toast master and sales man who feels little obligation to anyone. Clegg is a bullshit artist, upper class twit who's been fast tracked well beyond his competences. Clegg's main achievement seems to be to make Cameron look good by comparison.

How the hell can you 'forget' you're supposed to running the country? It's pathetic.

Totally agree with you here - he has hardly got the work 'ethic'

Former Member

Bless, it's such a tough life for the little puffalump.

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Has a man ever lost his credibility as quickly as Clegg? Mind you, he is the consumate politician... ie full of S**t

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2/26/1112:40 PM

cologne 1Member Memoriam

I haven't read any of the replies, but can I just say that neither Cameron nor Clegg have a mandate to rule this country. Their first rule was not to have an election for 5 years. How can that be a democracy?

2/26/1112:44 PM

Former Member

They can do a lot of damage in 5 years

2/26/1112:50 PM

RexiMember 10 years

I never though you and I would agree on politics cologne ... but I totally agree with you

Also, it makes me soooo mad that we are wasting money on this stooopid AV vote and equally stupid census, when we are cutting costs elsewhere.

Next time I am voting for the Blah Party

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2396707636

2/26/1112:52 PM

Former Member

The census is apparently going to cost around 600 million, why at this time???? And is it really necessary?

2/26/1112:59 PM

RexiMember 10 years

Of course it's not Skylark ... the data already exists somewhere anyway.

In this 'age of austerity' this was one cost that we could have cut, and no one would have been inconvenienced

Former Member

Originally Posted by Skylark24:

The census is apparently going to cost around 600 million, why at this time???? And is it really necessary?

And the only question that isn't compulsory is the religion one

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