{"id":3503,"date":"2010-04-22T12:20:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2011-02-14T18:48:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T22:48:14","slug":"britian-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/britian-more\/","title":{"rendered":"British Lib Dem leader on Britain’s “war guilt”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats may have a lot of apologizing to do<\/a> after an article he wrote as a member of the European parliament came to light:<\/p>\n

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A rattled Nick Clegg today sought to defend himself over his claim that the British people have a ‘more insidious cross to bear’ than Germany over World War II.<\/p>\n

The Lib Dem leader attempted to laugh off criticism of his astonishing attack on our national pride — in which he said we suffered ‘delusions of grandeur’ and a ‘misplaced sense of superiority’ over having defeated the horrors of Nazism.<\/p>\n

Campaigning ahead of tonight’s crucial second live TV showdown with party leaders, Mr Clegg said: ‘I must be the only politician who has gone from being Churchill to being a Nazi in under a week.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Then again, despite the apparent anti-British taint, it might gain him votes<\/em> in some crucial swing ridings where anti-British feelings are treasured and welcomed.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: Sorry about the original headline . . . must have started a cut-and-paste and then forgotten to fix it. Fixed now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats may have a lot of apologizing to do after an article he wrote as a member of the European parliament came to light: A rattled Nick Clegg today sought to defend himself over his claim that the British people have a ‘more insidious cross to bear’ than Germany over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,53,230],"tags":[188,156,681],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-politics","category-ww2","tag-electionwatch","tag-fail","tag-nickclegg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Uv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7817,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}