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Let's copy Cameron: Nick Clegg's secret debate dossier found in the back of cab

Nick Clegg's secret strategy to imitate David Cameron at the next TV election debate has been exposed, after an aide left the plan in a taxi.

An embarrassing dossier compiled by chief party strategists which stresses that Mr Clegg must act more like the Tory leader was found in a cab just hours after the first debate last Thursday.

Entitled 'I'm Not Here Right Now', it gives a run down of how Clegg faired during the last debate in comparison to his rivals and advice for the next leaders' debate.



Embarrassment: A dossier advising Nick Clegg to replicate the behaviour of David Cameron has been left in the back of a taxi

It tells Mr Clegg to steer clear of the nuclear deterrent argument and reads: 'DC (David Cameron) talks a lot in the language of values. We need to do this.'

On the question of the Lib Dem policy to axe Brain's Trident nuclear deterrent, is spells out in block capitals: 'Avoid unilateral disarmament implication'.

And the paper accuses Mr Clegg of being 'offensive' by comparing assisted suicide to putting down a pet.


It contains harsh criticisms of his performance in rehearsals, calls him 'offensive', and states he speaks too quickly, uses too much jargon and is too hesitant.

The plan urges him to distance himself from Gordon Brown - who is characterised as 'weird' and 'old politics' and launch a class war attack on the Tory leader.

It prompts Mr Clegg to point out failings like 'weird language, no real promises and lots of fudge' and tells him to speak of opponents who do not live 'in the real world' and who 'don't understand'.

The dossier, seen by the Sun, was written by John Sharkey, chairman of the Lib Dem election campaign team and Mr Clegg's strategist and communications adviser, and left in the back of a taxi following a journey from Parliament to North West London.

Mr Clegg is also told to 'constantly stand back' from his Labour and Tory rivals.

The war book advises Clegg to copy the Tories, whilst also attacking Mr Cameron's claims.

On the crucial question of whether the Lib Dems would do a deal in a hung parliament, the leader is told to say 'yes' but only if his party's policies and values are put into practice.

Mr Sharkey, ex-boss of ad firm Saatchi and Saatchi, reveals he is so far unhappy with Mr Clegg's efforts on the hung parliament. 'No convincing answers yet,' the briefing note reads.

The Lib Dem leader is even warned to stop falsely claiming the party was not tarnished by the expenses scandal.

On the question of Mr Clegg's debating style, his aides were vociferous.

The dossier reads, in capitals, that he needs 'more passion/conviction', to 'speak more slowly, and that he is being 'too repetitive'.

Mr Sharkey also urges him to look more relaxed and to use 'shorter, simpler answers' and to stop rambling 'answer first...not discursive tour'.

And Mr Clegg is told to be more aggressive, ensuring he interrupts Mr Brown and Mr Cameron and not to be hesitant about it.

An additional revelation from the lost dossier it that Lord Rennard, who quit as the party's chief executive last year following a row over his expenses, is heavily involved in planning the Lib Dem manifesto launch.

Last night the taxi driver, who picked up the man who left in the dossier, told the Sun: 'It's extraordinary that someone like him could just leave this stuff in a taxi.

'It's very sloppy to say the least and I thought people should know.'

Last night a spokesman for Lib Dems said: 'We are investigating. Until we know more, we are not able to comment.'


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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Just goes to show what politicians will do to get into power..... It's pretty obvious to me that they are not to be trusted over anything no matter what persuasion they are....

Or their Perversion...

There's a reliable source, the Sun newspaper Perhaps in another secret dossier there are instructions to leave things lying around

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

It was probably discarded after being used as somewhere to rest their Expenses claim form as they were focussing on completing Section (A) "the Utter and extreme Bullsh*t" section of the parliamentary expense claims form that ensures unvetted reimbursement !!!

the tories just lost millions of votes...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -work.html

These would not have been Tory voters anyway.

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Grandad,

ok, but some COULD have been...if its a hung result now it could be his fault...

MP perks....(you dont see those vacancies down the job centre)

His expenses have also contained a series of bizarre claims including one for an Ikea CAKE PAN. Neil, who presents the BBC's Daily Politics show, said: "Nick, you said on the TV debate on Thursday night that 'what I've supported all my adult life is a complete clean up of politics'.

"Yet in your own expenses claims you regularly claim more than Gordon Brown or David Cameron.

"It doesn't sound like you spend all your adult life trying to clean it up."

He then listed Mr Clegg's expenses including a new kitchen, gardening and wall building.

A tetchy Mr Clegg defended his claims - and insisted when he sells the £300,000 property he will give all the profits to the taxpayer.

He said: "I've used the allowance to keep a house in Sheffield. It's not my home, it's a home on loan from the taxpayer. That's why, when it's sold, every single penny of gain is returned to you the taxpayer.

"As it happened, I needed to make sure the garden isn't a complete eyesore."

Mr Clegg - whose OWN home is a £1.3million mansion in Putney, London - insisted he only had jobs done necessary to keep the house "in basic working order".

And he described it as "modest" yet its value is nearly double the South Yorkshire city's average.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... z0lk1axRNh

Most won't even be on the electoral register.

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Grandad,

Short of shooting them, I can't see how any political waffle will ever get rid of the problem of the underclass becoming the under underclass where they will go out begging on the streets more than they do now.....
With unemployment at 2.5 million, the only way I can see it is to force them into voluntary or community work whilst receiving benefits....

they usually have to be to get a giro.......

No they dont....its nowt to do with the electoral register....

Still....its encouraging that the tories see the problem that long term scroungers place on the rest of us and the genuine unemployed.

Labour buries its head in the sand and borrows vaste amounts to maintain payments to those same government sponsored long term scroungers that rely on nulab and who in return vote for more of the same by giving nulab their vote to prop up their ability to live as work free a life as they possibly can...my only issue with this is that its me, my kids, and my grand kids that'll be picking up the tab for at least another 50 years...and its also puts paid to any hopes of getting a realistic state pension.

No one..not even these clever nulabour types can go on spending more than they make forever...or the whole house of cards will come tumbling down and we will be the poorest nation on gods earth...nobody will want to have anything to do with us, we contribute nothing, no industry, little or no oil, barely produce enough food to feed ourselves...nope..the world will just write us off im afraid.

Be simpler to avoid all that..best vote Tory....

Price worth paying.

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IDFIMH

i can still remember the last 1......that didnt exactly go well