Clegg, the pipsqueak enemy of democracy

WHAT a piece of work is Nick Clegg. Without any discernible great talent or intellect (though he has a beautiful wife!), this is the man whose chief legacy to our country is the annihilation of his party, after he swapped its few remaining principles for a ministerial car and the grandiose title of deputy prime minister.

Indeed, as Lib Dem leader, he tore up one manifesto pledge after another and whittled down the 67 MPs he inherited to a pathetic rump of just eight.

Yet with supreme arrogance, this eurofanatical ex-MEP threatens to mobilise the party’s 100-odd peers to overturn the will of 17.4million voters, emphatically expressed in the referendum on June 23.

Seizing on Thursday’s anti-democratic ruling by three High Court judges, who said the vote gave ministers no authority to leave the EU without Parliamentary consent, he indicates that Lib Dems will vote to block withdrawal unless the Government opts for ‘soft Brexit’.

Leave aside that, even by the standards of the House of Cronies and Dodgy Donors, there is no creature more puffedup and absurd – or less qualified to speak and act for the British people – than a ‘We Know Best’ Lib Dem peer.

Nobody should be under any illusion about what the likes of Mr Clegg mean when they talk of ‘soft Brexit’. Put bluntly, they mean ‘no Brexit’.

Specifically, they mean we should retain our EU membership in all but name, continuing to pay hefty subscriptions to Brussels, staying in the customs union, obeying every suffocating regulation laid down by the unelected European Commission and remaining committed to the free movement of people.

As Mr Clegg knows full well, this is not what the British people voted for.

During his time as leader, this selfimportant pipsqueak all but wiped out public support for his party. Is he now determined to finish the job?