• Owen Jones is a Guardian columnistBut let me offer some praise. Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk Thanks to them the self-serving, mutual appreciation society – otherwise known as the British establishment – may soon find its time is running out.This is grotesque behaviour, like a child who takes a magnifying glass to ants. Knighthood for Nick Clegg in New Year Honours list. Clegg thus became the first Liberal Democrat leader to out-poll Labour in an opinion poll. The former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is to receive a knighthood just months after losing his seat as an MP, according to reports.. After Clegg became leader, the polls were mixed; the Liberal Democrats occasionally polled above 20 points, averaging around 19%. "Former Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has been knighted in the New Year Honours list.Political awards are often the most controversial parts of the honours list.As chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs, Sir Graham is a powerful figure within the Parliamentary Conservative Party.The committee's treasurer Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is also knighted, and its vice-chairwoman Cheryl Gillan made a Dame.Another Conservative MP, veteran former minister Christopher Chope, is knighted.Mark Daly investigates on BBC iPlayer nowAnd Prof John Curtice - whose exit poll correctly predicted the hung Parliament in June's general election - is knighted for services to social sciences and politics.David Johnston, chief executive of the Social Mobility Foundation charity, is appointed OBE for services to social mobility and education.
It is an unfortunate quirk of the British honours system that politicians and civil servants are always far more likely to receive honours than others. He has written a book on how to stop Brexit. Voices > Letters Nick Clegg deserves to be given a knighthood – the Liberal Democrats did a great job as part of the Coalition . Anger as Nick Clegg gets a knighthood for his five years as deputy prime minister as one MP claims it is for 'services to breaking up communities' The former Tory children's minister Edward Timpson, who lost his Crewe and Nantwich seat at the election, has also been made a CBE.Since leaving Parliament, he has continued to campaign against the UK's departure from the EU - recently publishing a book called How to Stop Brexit (and Make Britain Great Again).He faced heavy criticism from some wings of his party when he agreed to join the Conservatives in a coalition government after the 2010 general election produced a hung Parliament.SNP Cabinet Office spokesman Tommy Sheppard said many of this year's honours list could be "rightly proud of the recognition their honour gives to their works".But he added: "However, they should not be doled out political favours. Tony Blair is one of the most unpopular individuals, let alone politicians, in the country; but the man who helped lay Iraq to waste and works for torturing and murderous dictatorships is treated by much of the media as an oracle of wisdom.In any case, if you want to understand why Brexit happened, look no further than these two individuals. ... Former Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has been knighted in the New Year Honours list. Photograph: Tom Pilston/The Times/PA Clegg claimed that new … They played critical roles in creating the army of the disillusioned who flocked to join the Labour party, and then in their millions voted against a bankrupt status quo.
This is a blatant ignoring of the democratic process and he is not accepting the EU referendum. In May 2009, the party overtook Labour in an opinion poll (25%–22%) for the first time since the days of its predecessor, the SDP–Liberal Alliance, in 1987.