Tis the day for tickets for events in London it would seem, as the IPPR have been in touch about a few spaces left for tomorrow’s speech on electoral reform from Nick Clegg:
The Shape of the New Politics
Keynote speech by Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Thursday 21 April 2011, (9.45am for) 10 – 11am
ippr offices, 14 Buckingham St, 4th Floor, London, WC2N 6DF
Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg MP, will give a keynote speech at ippr outlining the case for the Alternative Vote as part of the ‘new politics’. He will speak about the role that reform of our electoral system can have in changing our political culture and political system for good. In addition, Nick will address the nature of British coalition politics, as the two parties in the Government enter the first set of elections since the General Election.
Seats are limited at this event and will be offered on a “first come first served” basis. To request a place please RSVP to [email protected] or call 020 7470 6120.
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Judging by the quietness of the traffic here in Twickenham, much of London is already on holiday, absent with or without leave, so I hope an an adequate audience can be rustled up for Our Leader’s wise words. It would have been much better, I think, to have given him the day off as well.
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I was at the speech this morning (thanks LDV for the info!) and Nick gave a great speech, including robustly hitting back at some of the distortions of the NO campaign. Anyway, the reason I comment is because there were plenty of journalists there and it was very interesting to overhear them:
Journo 1 to Jounro 2, before Nick had entered, “Do you think the Lib Dems will be hammered next time?”
Journo 2, “I do hope so.”
Hurrah for independent political journalists!
‘Nick Clegg scores an own goal for the Yes to AV campaign’ [Niki Seth-Smith, OurKingdom 22 April]: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/niki-seth-smith/nick-clegg-scores-own-goal-for-yes-to-av-campaign