Comments on: Ask Nick Clegg

By: Janet Davies

Janet Davies — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:52:02 +0000

I note your comments regarding a referendum on membership of the EU. Why aren’t the Lib Dems doing more to promote a positive image of the EU and its work? At present most of media coverage is negative and it would seem that eurosceptic views are given prominence. There seems to be little coverage of rebuttals to some of the most outrageous and controversial negative statements.

By: Steve Beasant | NICK MEETS… YOU: TWITTER, SOCIAL NETWORKING & PUBLIC MEETINGS

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:20:21 +0000

[...] Nick visited the headquarters of the Reuters news agency to take part in ‘The Great Debate’, as the first guest to be interviewed live and online using multiple online communications tools, with the questions coming from anyone across the UK. He is also the first leader of a UK political party to take questions from such a broad audience and mix of tools. He was interviewed on the way to the event by Christian Payne (aka Documentally) a blogger and social media expert. For more details of the event: Click Here [...]

By: Nick Clegg

Nick Clegg — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:50:36 +0000

To: C J Benjafield
I’ve called for a referendum on the real issue - the UK’s membership of the European Union and I would accept the outcome. But I’d fight for a ‘Yes’ vote – leaving the EU would be very far from cost-free. The EU will be vital if we’re going to tackle climate change, organised crime and the recession. I completely agree the EU needs reform – giving more powers to elected representatives and tackling the injustice of the CAP, for instance – but we need to fight for reform by playing a full role in the EU. We’re stronger together and weaker apart. http://bit.ly/i9aMA and http://bit.ly/SOmrt

By: Social Media & You | Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats

Social Media & You | Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:10:59 +0000

By: Frank Munns

Frank Munns — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:07:31 +0000

Dear Nick, The government recently stated that they intend to cut down on spending in the public sector. How does this square with the fact that public sector rates of pay increased by 3.6% in the first three months of this year while wage rates in the private sector decreased by 1.9% during the same period? Refer to web page:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5 314132/Average-wage-falls-for-the-first- time-in-at-least-45-years-but-not-in-pub lic-sector.html
Frank.

By: Ioan Richard

Ioan Richard — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:08:10 +0000

I am an Independent Swansea City & County Councillor of 25 years service. I work in partnership with the Liberal Democrats here in a Coalition called “The Swansea Administration” that forms the Ruling Group on this large Welsh Unitary Authority. As a retired Science / Maths Teacher I have for the past seventeen years studied the inadequacy of Wind Turbines. They will never halt Climate Change. All they do is siphon out vast sums of Public Subsidies called Renewable Obligations. People like Ed Milliband MP are in my opinion going to bankrupt our UK Economy by playing silly games with UK Energy Policies. Can you Nick Clegg MP work to counter the mad policies of Ed Milliband MP in Westminster and Jane Davidson AM in Cardiff?

By: Ross Hutton

Ross Hutton — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:38:30 +0000

I’m thinking beyond the credit crunch and MP’s expenses and the world of Tweeting and looking for the Party to take a unilateral nuclear disarmament stance. We cannot hold the moral high ground against Iran when we continue to hold (and build) nuclear weapons. What’s the point of them? Once anyone starts we’re all finished anyway so words like deterrent are as irrelevant as the weapons.
Let the lib Dems take the lead with a firm promise on neclear disarmament.

By: James A. Friedlander

James A. Friedlander — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:25:20 +0000

Why all this fuss that a PM shuld be elected,the PM has already been elected as an MP and surely it is up to the party he/she represents to elect who they feel should be leader or PM, was for example Churchill atthe beginning of WW2 elected as PM by public or Harold Macmillan who succeeded Anthony Eden or do we want to adopt the American system of electing a President.God help us!!

By: charlie robertson

charlie robertson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:55:59 +0000

Do you think we need changes to the parliamentary system to avoid having unelected PMs and what appears to be an unelected deputy PM ?

By: Mike Powell

Mike Powell — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:38:24 +0000

Should the UK take the same approach to drug use as the Portugese have done?