Nick Clegg gives the William Beveridge lecture

7 Comments

• Helen Dudden 14th Jul '12 - 7:40pm

  I support better warmer homes, and this is in the social housing sector. We should consider that there are many who are unable to buy their own homes. I have written quite a bit on the need for insulation good heating systems and good quality homes for all. Several schemes in place have only been of use to those in either private rental, or those who are lucky enough to own their own. This covers the lower paid worker, and in turn could provide a way forward out of the problems with the use of energy. It is serious the cost to stay warm, health and wellbeing.

  Things seem to rattle around that there will be change, but when? I feel we have to be serious on the need to rely on outdated heating that still remains in quite a few homes.

• Tony Greaves 15th Jul '12 - 12:17am

  If this is the kind of disjointed chatter that appears on Twitter I am glad don’t go there!

  Tony Greaves

• Bill le Breton 15th Jul '12 - 7:49am

  Hey Tony, get post modern: the mediator is the message.

• Annie 15th Jul '12 - 11:59am

  Pity there’s not a transcript, sick and disabled being forced out to work when there isn’t any work, that can’t be right or humane or indeed good business practice

• Simon Banks 15th Jul '12 - 6:10pm

  He was actually pretty good and especially good at putting immediate political issues in the wider context. He did not sound like the voice of Cameron, and made some good points about deprivation. He did oversimplify the choices available to government in making cuts, but the point that really turned me off was his offhand stereotyping of the voters we have lost as people who had hought we could be the conscience of the Labout Party. He sounded as if he was not bothered about losing them. We’ve lost some good people, voters, members and activists. They may have been mistaken, but they deserve more respect and we should care about the possibility of regaining some of them.

• jason 17th Jul '12 - 9:17am

  ……………………………..We’ve lost some good people, voters, members and activists. They may have been mistaken, but they deserve more respect and we should care about the possibility of regaining some of them………………

  Most of those ‘lost’ were those who had worked for years for ‘lost causes’ because they believed in the policies not the power.. Naive? perhaps, but dedicated.
  They weren’t mistaken and they didn’t leave the party; the party left them.
  As for getting them back; why would they do the ‘donkey work’ for a party that treats them as doormats?

• Terry 17th Jul '12 - 10:10pm

  The speech was not bad, as far as it went. But when he defended the free school program in the Q&A afterwards, he lost me. He has little idea (or chooses to mislead) about what he is really allowing Gove to do.