On Saturday I wrote:
In January last year Clegg called for tough action on Labour peers found to have accepted offers of payments to seek changes in the law. "I am also now calling on the Government to introduce urgent new legislation to change the rules so that peers found guilty of wrongdoing are expelled from Parliament," he said. But Clegg's tough stance does not extend to Lord Rennard who claimed £41,000 in expenses he was not entitled to as his main home was in London. Rennard has
resigned as Chief Executive of the Lib Dems continues to sit as a Lib Dem peer.
Now it turns ou to be much worse. Lord Rennard is the Lib Dems answer to Alastair Campbell. Nick Clegg is dependent on him for advice on what to say.
We know this because of a scoop in The Sun courtesy of a taxi driver who handed over a Lib Dem dossier to the paper that was left in his cab.
The report says:
The dossier reveals Lord Rennard was heavily involved in planning the Lib Dem manifesto launch, despite quitting as the party's chief executive last year following a row over his expenses.
Despite claims that Lib Dems champion women's rights, Lord Rennard demanded there must be a token female involved in the launch. In the event, there was just one woman on the platform.
I think the electorate ought to know more about how the expenses abuser, Nick Clegg, relies on an even greater expenses abuser, Lord Rennard, as puppet master.
