Nick Clegg takes credit for saving British economy, snubs David Cameron
Nick Clegg seems to have claimed he protected the British economy from falling deeper into recession in his latest statement.
According to The Telegraph he said: “I’m proud of creating a stable government without which we couldn’t have had an economic recovery now.”
The Lib Dem leader failed to mention the Conservative half of the coalition when he said the economic policies he “pioneered” since 2010 have prevented Britain from following in Greece’s footsteps.
Talking to BBC Radio 4, Clegg said: “Look what can happen, look at Greece. Our deficit and Greece’s deficit were pretty similar in 2010 but look at the huge differences since then.
“Look at the massive expansion in apprenticeships pioneered by the Liberal Democrats since then, look at the huge cash increase for everybody on the state pension because of Steve Webb’s Liberal Democrat reforms on pensioners, look at the way toddlers in schools now get a healthy meal at lunchtime because of what the Liberal Democrats have done and look at the way in which millions of working people in this country have received because of the Liberal Democrat flagship policy of raising the point at which you start paying income tax.
“Those are things we’re very proud of. There are a whole bunch of other things we wanted to do in the future but crucially we don’t want to throw all those things away by either seeing a Labour only or Conservative only government messing it up by lurching right or left.”
On the topic of Tory prime minister David Cameron, Clegg argued that he had “remorselessly cut, cut, cut public services for ideological reasons way beyond what is necessary”.