Miriam Gonzalez: Politicians’ wives shouldn’t have a victim complex
Miriam with Nick Clegg at a campaigning event last month
The wife of Nick Clegg is giving a web-chat on Mumsnet, it’s very revealing – not least because Ms Gonzalez is so down with the Mumsnet lingo.
She has just been asked who is the brightest, her (she’s an international lawyer thought to be earning hundreds of thousands) or Nick Clegg. She replies: “My DH is the brightest, but I compensate with effort what I did not get through nature… and I eventually get there!”
She can’t even vote, she adds, so she won’t be standing anytime soon.
Interestingly Mr Clegg’s wife adds that she has has no truck with the ‘victim complex’ of the politicians and their families who are in the public eye, telling one reader: “Having been married to Nick, the Deputy prime Minister of this country for the last five years, and seeing British politics so close-by has been a privilege.
“I do not agree ‘at all’ with the victim complex that seems to be applied recently to some politicians and their families.
“If there are difficult times we deal with them together as a family, as I suppose most families do. But I can guarantee you that most of what families of politicians go through is nothing in comparison to the issues that other families have to deal with.”
She adds that she likes the US programme the Good Wife, about a politician: “For my taste the Good Wife… though for Daily Mail standards she would be the Bad Wife!”
She has also revealed she’s been running a food blog with her sons, who look like pretty good chefs in training.