
Nick Clegg has lost his seat in parliament to a former student.
In a way it was crueller in 2015 when the people of Sheffield Hallam returned Nick Clegg to parliament with just seven other colleagues.
Then he was forced to stay on, or else risk reducing their presence in the Commons by 12.5 per cent.
Now, the former party leader has been removed, and replaced with a Labour candidate.
In 2015, the Liberal Democrats were given a battering, when their vote share dropped from the 23 per cent it had won in 2010, to 7.9 per cent.
In part this was due to their U-Turn on tuition fees, which they'd pledged to abolish in their manifesto, only to raise them along with the Conservative Party.
When the news broke that he had lost his sea students online reacted with glee.
Me and my £27k of student debt seeing Nick Clegg may have lost Sheffield Hallam. #GE2017 https://t.co/8mjHM9CzgX— Tom Carnduff (@Tom Carnduff) 1496965391
@nick_clegg U Asked 4 This We DONT TRUST U THX 2 U My Kids Have £40000 Round Their Necks #JC4PM— 💙🌹 ** 🌹💙 🇵🇸#Free_Palestine🇵🇸 (@💙🌹 ** 🌹💙 🇵🇸#Free_Palestine🇵🇸) 1496972801
Nick Clegg finally getting what he deserves #GE17— Jack Hobbs (@Jack Hobbs) 1496972801
His Labour opponent is Jared O'Hara, aged 25, was a student in 2010.
It was a 4 per cent swing from Liberal Democrats to Labour in the seat.
If I had a pound for every lie Nick Clegg told I wouldn't have to take out a student loan— Matt (@Matt) 1496972986
Nick Clegg can drink my salty student tears. #GE2017— Nav (@Nav) 1496966280
Rumour has it Clegg and Farron could be in trouble https://t.co/QECLbcbSSC— Student Newspaper (@Student Newspaper) 1496969493
The result was predicted by some beforehand.
Many were calling it 'Cleggsit', which is particularly mean considering how much the party's Brexit spokesperson is associated with the Remain campaign.
IT'S HAPPENING #cleggsit— ryan 🚩 (@ryan 🚩) 1496966009
been a pleasure Nick #cleggsit— corrin (@corrin) 1496969853
#Cleggsit coming soon? #GE2017— Mike Sivier (@Mike Sivier) 1496969914
Students shouldn't be too joyful.
Clegg's voice as a Remainer was to their benefit, and the majority of the student aged population (75 per cent of 18-24 year-olds) voted to Remain in 2016.
Regardless of the government that is elected, Brexit is still coming.