The latest dividing line from the man who keeps thinking of politics as his own personal playground battle is to say the Tories would enjoy austerity. The polls warn us that a hung parliament, or thanks to the anti-English and anti-Tory bias in our electoral system a Labour minority govt ( the favourite of every Lib Dem except perhaps Nick Clegg - whose tried to work with Brown once a learnt the h...
submitted by
ManInAShed on 9th Mar 2010 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
Today’s Guardian carries an in-depth interview with Nick Clegg (it’s labelled ‘Exclusive’, which seems a rather optimistic boast during an election campaign when the Lib Dem leader gives interviews every day). Much of what he says will be familiar to readers of his pamphlet, The Liberal Moment, in which Nick made clear that the Tories
submitted by
LiberalDemocratVoice on 1st May 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
The Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, and his deputy Vince Cable, are the subjects of two interview features well worth a read: Nick Clegg was interviewed for EurActive.com, answering questions on numerous matters, including the Lisbon Treaty: What I do know from my own personal experience, having been a MEP and watched, from Brussels and Strasbourg, the
submitted by
LiberalDemocratVoice on 16th Dec 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg will urge voters not to sleepwalk into a Tory government in a keynote speech to his party conference.
submitted by
BBCPolitics on 23rd Sep 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
With most polls showing the next election could result in a hung parliament, there has been various speculation about what the Lib Dem position would be. I think it’s time for Nick Clegg to make an unambiguous statement that the party would not enter a coalition with either Labour or the Tories. Here are my
submitted by
LiberalDemocratVoice on 10th Mar 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
With another poll showing the Tories short of the lead they need to be sure of a majority—ICM for the Sunday Telegraph has the Tories on 38, Labour on 31 and the Lib Dems on 21—we are going to hear even more about a hung parliament and the role of the Lib Dems; I can’t remember any Lib Dem leader getting as much media attention as Nick Clegg has had these past four days. But if t...
submitted by
Spectator on 13th Mar 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
From The Guardian: The Liberal Democrats today become the first mainstream party to declare they will not renew Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent system with an equivalent modernised system, as parliament agreed in 2007. Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, told the Guardian he was making the move because of the rapidly deteriorating public finances and because
submitted by
LiberalDemocratVoice on 16th Jun 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
The Lib Dem's have tried so hard to avoid being drawn into the question of who they would back in a hung Parliament. Up to now Nick Clegg has been pretty good at avoiding the question. But then they let Chris Huhne on the TV and whoops! Talking to the BBC Huhne started raising the coalition of 1940 as a precedence for Lib Dem action in a hung parliament ie they could work with Labour if Brown step...
submitted by
WestBromBlog on 6th Apr 2010 (via westbromblog.blogspot.com)
Jude Robinson is challenging Lib Dem MP Julia Goldsworthy to let the voters in Camborne, Redruth and Hayle know her views on a Lib Dem/Tory pact for government. It has been widely reported in the press this week that Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has indicated that if the 2010 General Election resulted in no single party winning an outright Commons majority, Lib Dem MPs would swing their votes behind ...
submitted by
LabourMatters on 29th Nov 2009 (via labourmatters.com)
Everyone’s favourite Tory blogger Iain Dale interviewed Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg on Friday morning about the party’s performance in the English local elections - you can listen to the 7-minute podcast version below: Powered by Podbean.com
submitted by
LiberalDemocratVoice on 6th Jun 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
With the prospect of a hung parliament looking more likely after a MORI poll put the gap between Labour and the Conservatives at just 6%, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has made it quite clear that a vote for his party at the next election could let Cameron have the keys to Number 10 even
submitted by
LabourMatters on 22nd Nov 2009 (via labourmatters.com)