Thumbs down for Clegg’s job
■ Can anyone really be surprised former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has taken a highly paid post with Facebook after lambasting them for not paying their fair share of tax (Mirror, October 20)?
After all, this is the man who abandoned whatever principles he had to throw in his lot with the Tories, supporting their cuts on welfare services just for the lure of being deputy prime minister.
The Mirror rightly condemns the disgrace of senior politicians finding their way into highly paid corporate positions after leaving office. It is corrosive to our democracy.
Ed Tilbury, Buckhurst Hill, Essex
■ How outrageous that Nick Clegg has taken a position with Facebook. It only goes to show how nowadays failure is rewarded by a fortune. Here is the guy who betrayed students over fees and propped up dodgy David Cameron’s coalition by voting with the Tories while austerity plunged working people into poverty. Cameron, the architect of disastrous Brexit, is making a fortune on the speaking circuit and now his lackey Clegg is lining his pockets in the same fashion. Clegg’s appointment will get a huge thumbs down from most people.
Bill Cook Teignmouth, Devon
■ Facebook claims to be cleaning up its act but has appointed Nick Clegg as vice-president of global affairs and communications. They obviously paid no attention to his atrocious record during the Tory/Lib Dem coalition years, when he turned his back on the very people who had elected him by supporting the increase in university tuition fees.
His appointment can’t be fake news as you couldn’t make it up! Mick Waites, Portsmouth
■ Labour’s Jon Trickett is correct about Clegg and the “revolving door” between politics and big business. One way to tackle this would be to ban MPs from taking up lucrative posts in the private sector, thus ensuring people enter politics for the public good, not self-enrichment. Lobbying should also be banned. If politicians want input from business leaders, they’ve got select committees, and if MPs want to go on factfinding missions, they should do so at their own expense, not paid for by foreign governments, or businesses intent on soliciting favours.
I look forward to the next Labour government cleaning up politics. John Shale, Wigan
■ Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Jon Trickett is heavily critical of Nick Clegg who is said to be set to earn up to £4million at Facebook, stating: “Labour is committed to slamming shut the revolving door between politics and big business, which has corroded public trust in politics.”
I wonder if that commitment includes former Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna, who is paid more than £450 per hour for his work as chairman of Progressive Centre UK’s advisory board.
Ron Wilson, Newcastle upon Tyne
■ So, Nick Clegg is going to Facebook to be its vice-president of global affairs and communications. He should feel right at home there because they’re as two-faced as him! Gordon Finlay, Castleford, West Yorks