Letter: Nick Clegg’s arrogance

I AGREE entirely with Telford Muir (Letters, 16 December) about the extremely limited abilities of our politicians and the low regard in which they are rightly held. However, their astounding arrogance is also breathtaking.

There was an excellent example of this recently: last week in a television interview Nick Clegg was asked whether, instead of criticising Cameron’s veto, he ought perhaps to be supporting the referendum on our continued membership of the EU that is wanted by a significant majority of the UK’s population.

Clegg replied with something to the effect that politicians were there to change and not to follow public opinion. Oh yes, since when?

How dare a politician utter such arrogant balderdash? And this from a man who is in government when his party got the votes of fewer than one in eight of the eligible electorate.

This is exactly the type of self-important, delusional and unjustified arrogance that takes these people into politics in the first place and then leads to them ignoring the people they are there to serve, accelerating the spiral of serious contempt for the so-called democratic system that we are now in.

We all need to stand up against these clowns.

David K Allan

Mainshill

Haddington, East Lothian