Mark Pack

Nick Clegg’s second ‘town hall’ meeting…

By | Sat 19th January 2008 - 7:25 am

… has been written up by the local newspaper here.

Amongst other issues, Nick talked about Prime Minister’s Questions – a topic recently raised on Lib Dem Voice by both MP Lynne Featherstone and peer Paul Tyler – and had this to say:

“Prime Minister’s Question Time is absurd,” he said. “The whole thing is designed to flatter the Prime Minister and the leader of the Conservatives.

“I much prefer meetings like these. The House of Commons has a certain rude logic to it but it’s a pathetic way to run a democracy, with grown men and women shouting at each other.

“I have said right from the beginning I would do as many of these meetings as I can. It’s much more rewarding. I hear from real people about their real everyday concerns.”

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4 Comments

  • Richard Church 19th Jan '08 - 5:38pm

    Deepak. Your idea of a family must be very different from mine.

    My extended family is far more representative of the country than the House of Commons, by gender and by race. We are arguementative, but we don’t behave like a bunch of overgrown schoolboys. We have debates which actually make some sense, instead of some silly point scoring questions and answers, and we actually show some respect for one another.

    PMQ’s just give politics a bad name.

  • Anax 19th Jan '08 - 6:30pm

    Clegg’s town hall meeting in Edinburgh was quite good. It certainly helps him put some desperately needed distance between him and Cameron.

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