Why do John Major and Nick Clegg keeping dragging down Great Britain?
IF we had a competition to decide who the British public would least like to hear from, who would win it?
My guess is it would be a draw. Most likely the top podium would go to Nick Clegg. But he might well be joined there by John Major.
A man who — against some competition — was perhaps our weakest and worst Prime Minister of recent times.
And yet both these men seem to think that the British public have a serious appetite for hearing from them.
On Monday it was John Major’s turn to treat us to another speech. This one, given in London, was pre-recorded. So the audience could turn the volume down if they wanted.
And there was good reason. Because in his speech the former Prime Minister once again gave one of his venomous tellings-off.
Of course, Sir John has been furious for years, since the British public failed to take his advice and voted for Brexit.
Though if Sir John had not been such an appalling Prime Minister and dragged this country into the Maastricht mess 30 years ago, all this could have been sorted out by now.
But back he came this week, to once again berate the Government and population.
Sir John claimed that in its negotiations with the EU our Government is on “a slippery slope down which no democratic government should ever travel”.
Does he really think Boris Johnson is setting up a military junta?
Major berated the Government’s “failures” at negotiation. As though John Major is a recognised grand master of negotiation. And he tried once again — as he has for years — to terrify the nation.
Brexit is going to be “even more brutal than expected”, he spat. At least Sir John still maintains a passing interest in this country. So long as we do what he tells us.
Nick Clegg, by contrast, has spent recent years putting the interests of America’s Silicon Valley before any valley of ours. After losing his Parliamentary seat in 2017 Clegg sold himself to the highest bidder. Which was Facebook.
Since he joined the organisation, he has been paid top dollar to help decide what all “decent” people should be able to learn about.
For instance, it turns out he was involved in Facebook’s decision to stop American voters being able to learn about the alleged corruption of Joe Biden’s family members right before the recent US election.
If that had been anyone else, or any other company, Clegg would have called it “election interference”. But it is all in a day’s work for Cleggy, who this week was on the BBC telling off us naughty Brits.
According to him, this country will have to “struggle for relevance” with a new administration in Washington. Of course, Clegg would have a struggle demonstrating his relevance to anyone apart from his bosses. But he — like Major — is flat-out wrong.
There may well be troubles with the new Biden administration in Washington. But Boris Johnson was one of the first world leaders to speak by phone to Biden and congratulate him on his poll results, getting in ahead of our European counterparts.
And phone calls aside, what Clegg and Major keep saying is clear and obvious junk.
These men keep talking down this country. All because they are furious at us for disobeying them in the 2016 vote.
But this country now — as throughout our history — hits well above its weight. We may have less than one per cent of the world’s population. But we are the world’s sixth largest economy and are the world’s fourth largest military power.
Countries and governments may vary in their attitudes towards us. But few can do without us. America needs us as a military and intelligence- sharing partner. Everybody wants access to our markets.
And it is not just the figures that work in our favour. Our language is the global language of commerce, enter- tainment and culture. Our cultural dominance is every- where.
Wherever you go in the world, however poor or rich the country, you will always find yourself discussing football’s Premier League. The same goes for our writers, artists, actors and musicians.
The whole globe has gone through a slump thanks to the coronavirus. But if this country has the will to do so, then we will come out of it at least as strong — if not stronger — than anyone.
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Sadly, we have always also led the world in having former leaders willing to talk down to us. And to talk us down.
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Men eager to take out their personal disappointments on the British public. Men eager to blame us, rather than face up to their own failures.
But we have shown these people in the past. And we will show them again. Just as we will show the world what this country has been, and can be again.
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