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How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Wed 5th October 2011 - 4:50 pm

The Voice is only a success because of the interest and support from our readers. For many people just lurking and reading the site is all they want to do – and that’s fine, we’re grateful for people taking the time to read the site.

You can though help us continue to produce interesting content for a growing audience. Here are four simple ways:

1. Let us have your tips for stories. Perhaps there’s something outrageous going on in your local council? Or you’re an expert in a particular area and have spotted a story other people have missed? Or you’ve seen …

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Liberal Democrats in Birmingham take up Chris Huhne’s energy challenge

By The Voice | Wed 5th October 2011 - 9:50 am

From the Birmingham Mail:

BIRMINGHAM City Council is hoping to slash gas and electric bills for householders and businesses by setting up its own energy supply business.

The local authority wants to use its clout as a wholesale energy buyer and solar power generator to offer gas and electric to the city’s 440,000 homes and 50,000 businesses at a cheaper rate…

The council wants to capitalise on a freeing up of the energy market announced by energy secretary Chris Huhne at last week’s Liberal Democrat Conference in Birmingham…

The city council’s deputy leader Paul Tilsley is taking up the initiative with a scheme to

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #241

By The Voice | Mon 3rd October 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 241st weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (25 September-1 October, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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The LDV Friday Five: 30 September 2011

By The Voice | Fri 30th September 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

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A Radical Activist Grandma writes… Lib Dems must make their voice heard on mental health and disability issues

By The Voice | Thu 29th September 2011 - 12:15 pm

Suzanne Fletcher had an experience many Lib Dems have experienced at the party’s conference: she’d prepared a speech but there was not time to call her during the debate. However, Lib Dem Voice is delighted, with Suzanne’s permission, to share her thoughts with our readers…

The speech I didn’t make at Lib Dem conference on the Employment & Support Allowance (ESA) and Work Capability Assessments
First of all congratulations to the Disability Consortium for their well-run campaign to get people to come and vote in this debate, although I was certainly going to be here anyway, along with my colleagues from Stockton, …

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #240

By The Voice | Sun 25th September 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 240th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (18-24 September, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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The LDV Friday Five: 23 September 2011

By The Voice | Fri 23rd September 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Blog of the Year Awards 2011: The Shortlists (11 comments) by Helen Duffett
  2. What Lib Dem bloggers and tweeters have said about Nick’s speech (14 comments) by Stephen Tall
  3. EXCLUSIVE: 84% of Lib Dem members continue to back Lib/Con Coalition (19 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. Opinion: Never Mention “STV” Again (29 comments) by Alex Wilcock
  5. Nick Clegg’s speech to LibDem Conference (15 comments) by Mark Pack

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Attendance at conference
  2. Ed Miliband plans to “rip up the rule book”
  3. Facing the Future
  4. Cambridge University Chancellorship Election
  5. Ed Davey made my jaw drop

5 from the LDV archive

(23rd September, 2006-10)

  1. Labour party tries to shoot the Elephant in the room (12 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2006
  2. Opinion: Bring back the suppressed blogs (5 comments) by Mary Reid, from 2007
  3. But will the party still love him in the morning? (17 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
  4. Leadership v. Activists – a personal reflection on Bournemouth ’09 #ldconf (13 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  5. Jo Swinson new Deputy Leader of Scottish Liberal Democrats (0 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

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The Independent View: Sorry ActionAid – it’s time to put people in charge of their own development

By The Voice | Tue 20th September 2011 - 11:27 am

This is a response article to ‘The Independent View: Centre Forum is wrong about aid – UK aid makes a difference’ by Centre Forum’s Pauline Dixon and Paul Marshall

Failure to allocate international aid more effectively on a rising budget will lead to a rapid decline in public support for it. This is what the CentreForum paper ‘International aid and educating the poorest’ seeks to address, and this is why ActionAid’s concerns about our paper, set out last week on Lib Dem Voice, are misplaced.

We are not opposed to international aid (ActionAid comes close to implying we are). Nor do we oppose …

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LibDem Conference passes drugs motion

By The Voice | Mon 19th September 2011 - 10:15 am

From a party press release:

Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference passed Protecting Individuals and Communities from Drug Harms, which calls for an independent panel to review current drug laws.

Commenting, Co-Chair of the Home Affairs Parliamentary Party Committee, Tom Brake MP said:

“Drugs can have a devastating impact on individuals and families and can fuel organised crime. Evidence shows that our current drug policy is costly, ineffective and it is the poor and marginalised who suffer most.

“Today, Liberal Democrats reaffirmed our support for an evidenced based drugs policy, calling for an independent panel to review current drug laws.

“We want to ensure the Government …

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Did you miss Tim Farron’s speech? Catch up with it (and the reaction) here…

By The Voice | Mon 19th September 2011 - 9:55 am

Lib Dem party president Tim Farron’s conference speeches have quickly established themselves as must-see events: bluntly honest and genuinely funny, Tim always gets a reaction. And not just from Lib Dem conference-goers if the media reaction is anything to go by…

If you missed Tim’s speech you can catch up with it here. Full text follows…

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #239

By The Voice | Sun 18th September 2011 - 7:59 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 239th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (11-17 September, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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The LDV Friday Five: 16 September 2011

By The Voice | Fri 16th September 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Danny Alexander suggests £12,500 income tax threshold (25 comments) by NewsHound
  2. The 7 Lib Dem MPs unaffected by the Boundary Commission proposals (23 comments) by Stephen Tall
  3. MP conference fringe league table 2011: Vince is the new Simon, Simon is the new Vince (5 comments) by Mark Pack
  4. The most exciting part of the Parliamentary Boundary review proposals (14 comments) by Mark Pack
  5. Opinion: Time to face reality on conference security (51 comments) by Simon McGrath

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Tips for speaking at Conference
  2. Influential liberals
  3. Nick Clegg NOW on Googleplus, where are our other MPs?
  4. Fundraising online
  5. My MP can lick his own elbow…

5 from the LDV archive

(16th September, 2006-10)

  1. Campaigning in Wales (1 comment) by Alison Goldsworthy, from 2006
  2. Sarah Ludford: my first party conference memories (0 comments) by Sarah Ludford MEP, from 2007
  3. An embarrassment of riches (2 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
  4. Adam Boulton writes… Lib Dems should back a Leaders’ Debate (15 comments) by Adam Boulton, from 2009
  5. Tim Farron: I’ll be a distinctive voice as President (25 comments) by Tim Farron MP, from 2010

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #238

By The Voice | Sun 11th September 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 238th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (4-10 September, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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The LDV Friday Five: 9 September 2011

By The Voice | Fri 9th September 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

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Lib Dems get police commissioner elections delayed

By The Voice | Thu 8th September 2011 - 9:47 pm

Via the BBC:

The Lib Dems urged elections for police commissioners to be delayed partly to help the electoral prospects of their local councillors, the BBC understands.

The elections were due to take place on 3 May 2012, the same day as council polls across England and Wales, but are set to be put back until November.

A senior Lib Dem spokesman told BBC News their councillors wanted to “depoliticise” the vote.

Labour, which is against elected police chiefs, claims the move will cost £25m.

The issue was the subject of a spat at Prime Minister’s Questions, with opposition leader Ed Miliband saying

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Forget airports, sort the road works – message from London business leaders

By The Voice | Tue 6th September 2011 - 6:55 pm

An opinion poll of 760 London business leaders carried out by ComRes for the new LondonLovesBusiness website found an overwhelming preference for the next Mayor of London to concentrate on sorting out roadworks rather than trying to get a new airport runway built.

Only 14% support a new Heathrow runway or a new Thames Estuary airport, but 57% want the next Mayor of London to focus on tackling roadworks disruption. Public transport is central to the business leaders’ concerns with improving public transport and transport links the most popular selection as the “single most important thing the mayor could do …

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #237

By The Voice | Sun 4th September 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 237th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (28 August – 3 September, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Sun 4th September 2011 - 9:25 am

The Voice is only a success because of the interest and support from our readers. For many people just lurking and reading the site is all they want to do – and that’s fine, we’re grateful for people taking the time to read the site.

You can though help us continue to produce interesting content for a growing audience. Here are four simple ways:

1. Let us have your tips for stories. Perhaps there’s something outrageous going on in your local council? Or you’re an expert in a particular area and have spotted a story other people have missed? Or you’ve seen …

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The LDV Friday Five: 2 September 2011

By The Voice | Fri 2nd September 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Ken Livingstone: mine won’t be a grassroots funded campaign (23 comments) by Mark Pack
  2. Opinion: Why millionaire graduates should stop whingeing about fees (77 comments) by Jonathan Hunt
  3. Alex Wilcock writes… Tory boy throws toys out of pram: not exactly Man Bites Dog (19 comments) by Alex Wilcock
  4. Liberal Democrats moving HQ : the future’s bright (11 comments) by Helen Duffett
  5. Chris White writes: It’s nice to be hated again (19 comments) by Chris White

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Guardian headline on Abortion wrong surely?
  2. >Is Cowley St still Cowley St?
  3. Imprints
  4. Uk IT/Engineering graduate unemployment c.f. Germany
  5. Accreditation

5 from the LDV archive

(2nd September, 2007-10)

  1. Andy Coulson accused of knowing about widespread phone hacking (2 comments) by The Voice, from 2010
  2. Nick says yes to Sky’s televised debate (7 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. Nick and Ming speak out on Megrahi (5 comments) by The Voice, from 2009
  4. Smithson’s view: How can the Lib Dems exploit the Tory “Thatcher tendency”? (27 comments) by Mike Smithson, from 2008
  5. Challenge to German’s Welsh leadership likely (4 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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The countdown to Connect has begun

By The Voice | Tue 30th August 2011 - 4:13 pm

News from Lib Dem HQ of the Liberal Democrats’ new campaign software:

Campaigning across the party is set to get a major boost when Connect comes online later this year. Connect is the UK version of the world’s leading campaign software that’s being built for the party by Voter Activation Network (VAN).

It is based on the tried and tested technology successfully used by Barack Obama and the Democrats in the US and in several other countries around the world. Connect combines high level security and stability, powerful campaigning tools …

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #236

By The Voice | Sun 28th August 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 236th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (21-27 August, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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The LDV Friday Five: 26 August 2011

By The Voice | Fri 26th August 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Opinion: Time to give inheritance tax the chop (75 comments) by Rebecca Tidy
  2. Chris Rennard writes… Can we tell what will happen in four years? (16 comments) by Chris Rennard
  3. At his best and his worst: 5 thoughts on Tony Blair’s analysis of the UK riots (15 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. Opinion: the battle for the Electoral Reform Society (40 comments) by Simon McGrath
  5. 5 posts to read before casting your Electoral Reform Society council vote (10 comments) by Stephen Tall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Seventeen per cent
  2. Nick on Hillsborough
  3. Where we work smart, we win
  4. Why did we get money from the Ministry of Sound?
  5. Is Cowley St still Cowley St?

5 from the LDV archive

(26th August, 2006-10)

  1. NEW POLL: what’s the main point of the Lib Dem party conference? (12 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
  2. Those Lib Dem donation figures in full (Q2, 2009) (4 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. Julia Goldsworthy condemns Grayling’s ‘The Wire’ comparison (13 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  4. The Independent View: are the Lib Dems being Con-ned over electoral reform? (44 comments) by J. Lee, from 2010
  5. Liblink: Nick Clegg on fairness, the Budget and the IFS report (40 comments) by Newshound, from 2010

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #235

By The Voice | Sun 21st August 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 235th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (14-20 August, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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The LDV Friday Five: 19 August 2011

By The Voice | Fri 19th August 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Opinion: UK riots – the mystery of the David Willetts’ rule of post-war baby boom peaks (25 comments) by Stuart Bonar
  2. Opinion: Our flawed drug laws are at heart of riots (41 comments) by Ewan Hoyle
  3. Searching for the cause of the riots is asking the wrong question (61 comments) by Iain Roberts
  4. Tim Leunig writes: Riots, Justice and Reconciliation (67 comments) by Tim Leunig
  5. Opinion: the battle for the Electoral Reform Society (25 comments) by Simon McGrath

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. 2015 : 124 seats
  2. The Keynes vs Hayek debate on radio 4 recently
  3. If there were only Republicans, which would you vote for?
  4. Imprints
  5. Uk IT/Engineering graduate unemployment c.f. Germany

5 from the LDV archive

(19th August, 2007-10)

  1. Opinion: Community politics has had its day – time to move on (27 comments) by Ed Maxfield, from 2010
  2. Opinion: it’s about more than A-levels (18 comments) by Alan Belmore, from 2010
  3. Ming in the Psychiatrist’s Chair (0 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
  4. Not quite “making it happen” (63 comments) by David Allen, from 2009
  5. Everybody say “Aww…” (5 comments) by Richard Huzzey, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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Voting closes on Friday….

By The Voice | Thu 18th August 2011 - 9:25 am

A quick plug for ourselves: voting closes on Friday in the Total Politics Blog Awards 2011. You can cast your votes here and if you would be so kind as to remember both The Voice and the blogs run by the various contributors to this site, that would be most spiffing. Thank you!

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #234

By The Voice | Sun 14th August 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 234th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (7-13 August, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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The LDV Friday Five: 12 August 2011

By The Voice | Fri 12th August 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Opinion: Leading Labour figures guilty of the worst kind of opportunism (63 comments) by David Parkes
  2. Opinion: Don’t make Guido’s day (30 comments) by Simon McGrath
  3. What caused the riots? It’s more than just the economy, stupid. (41 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. David Laws set for ministerial return in autumn? (31 comments) by Stephen Tall
  5. Brian Paddick writes: Lessons from the Tottenham riots (10 comments) by Brian Paddick

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Social media block for rioters?
  2. Is Dan Snow a Lib-Dem?
  3. Rubber bullet anecdote
  4. US debt settlement a catastrophe
  5. What counts as BAME?

5 from the LDV archive

(12 August, 2006-09)

  1. LibLink: THE shock of election night (29 comments) by NewsHound, from 2010
  2. Opinion: there’s no pleasure in saying ‘I told you so’ – but does it need saying? (58 comments) by Alex Marsh, from 2010
  3. Smaller Commons ‘would hit Lib Dems’ (33 comments) by Sara Bedford, from 2010
  4. Clegg impresses MoneySavingExpert.com (4 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2009
  5. Activate – reviewed by a participant (5 comments) by Mark Whiley, from 2009

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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Media reform: the debates elsewhere

By The Voice | Fri 12th August 2011 - 11:54 am

As we said on Monday, Lib Dem Voice over the next few weeks is taking part in a cross-blog debate on some of the most pressing issues regarding the UK media.

Earlier this week here on The Voice Mark took a look at what the Liberal Democrats have historically said on the topic and why the flaws in Ed Miliband’s policy are no cause for rejoicing.

Elsewhere on the blogosphere, David Elstein looked at those Ed Miliband policies in detail and Dan Hind put the case for ensuring greater plurality of ownership.

Next week we will be looking …

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Clegg: “You simply cannot go around breaking the law”

By The Voice | Thu 11th August 2011 - 3:15 pm

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has again emphasised the critical importance of retsoring law and order to the streets of Britain after the widespread rioting of the past few days. However, he also noted that — once calm is fully restored — there will be a need for a proper debate about ensuring young people in deprived areas feel they have a much greater stake in their own communities. Here’s what Nick said on the BBC this morning:

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Nick Clegg on the UK riots: “We’ve all got to work together to make sure this doesn’t happen again”

By The Voice | Wed 10th August 2011 - 8:00 am

The Deputy Prime Minister, speaking on a visit to Birmingham, pledged tough action to bring an end to the riots which have spread from London to other cities. Nick Clegg warned those who had taken part that, when caught, they would face serious consequences for their actions:

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