article_snippet: Deputy PM Nick Clegg making Cornish pasties during a visit to St Merryn school in north Cornwall .
article_snippet: Deputy PM Nick Clegg yesterday handed over £150,000 of public money to promote a language barely anyone speaks.
article_snippet: Deputy PM Nick Clegg generosity to the handful of Cornish speakers is the latest in a series of extraordinary gestures to county over recent months.
article_snippet: Three of Cornwall’s six MPs are Lib Dems with slim majorities and Mr Clegg
article_snippet: even chose to visit county rather than attend the Commons on the day Chancellor George Osborne presented Chancellor George Osborne Autumn Statement in December.
article_snippet: Mr Clegg said: ‘I am determined to keep [Cornish] alive and thriving.
article_snippet: I’m sure that Mr Clegg can tell us.
article_snippet: It would appear that Mr Clegg is trying to buy votes with public money.
article_snippet: Mr Clegg said yesterday Mr Clegg will stay on as a caretaker deputy prime minister if there is a hung parliament because the country will need a government in place to ‘keep the lights on’.
article_snippet: Mr Clegg confirmed Mr Clegg was prepared to stay on while coalition talks are hammered out, which could take weeks or months.
highlights_snippet: Liberal Democrat leader’s generosity to handful of Cornish speakers is latest in series of extraordinary gestures to county over recent months .
  