“I’m afraid there is no money left” he said. And he wasn’t a million miles from the truth.
Danny Alexander was asked yesterday at an event what he would put in a note to his successor. His reply was a little more, shall we say, motivating and inspiring, as the Vote Clegg, Get Clegg Facebook page reports:
At a meeting yesterday with Danny Alexander on the panel, he was asked what he would say in a note to his successor. Brilliant reply: “Jobs up, Growth up, Economy up, don’t screw it up”!
Posted by Vote Clegg, Get Clegg on Tuesday, 24 March 2015
The party should be talking up the fact that the last time the Tories were left in charge of the economy during a recession we had mass unemployment and hardship on a huge scale over many years. Every Friday night News at Ten had a job survey showing all the jobs that had been lost that week. It was a horrible time that left its mark on many of our party’s key figures as they were growing up – Willie Rennie and Tim Farron have both cited Thatcher as their inspiration to join the Liberals. The Liberal Democrats in government, in contrast, despite coming to power in a much more perilous economic time, have ensured that we haven’t seen the misery of 3 million unemployed. That’s why the Tories should not be trusted in power on their own.
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