12 Comments

• gadgie 31st Dec '07 - 3:48am

  http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/uk-and-international-news/2007/12/30/clegg-tories-will-split-us-78057-20268782/

  “Clegg said his party would try to counter growing support for independence by pledging more power for Holyrood”.
  So what will he do to counter growing support for an English Parliament?

• Jennie 31st Dec '07 - 6:40am

  I wish he’d stop going on about families. He’s starting to sound like Don Liberali. Otherwise, some nice sentiment about empowerment and equality and sorting out tax credits and opportunity for all and stuff. Lets hope he follows through on it all consistently, and doesn’t backpedal and obfuscate depending on who he’s talking to…

  Also, DUDES, no music at all would be better than a sub-par rip off of the Globelink News theme!

• Jennie 31st Dec '07 - 6:49am

  Still, positive coverage from Auntie Beeb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7165397.stm

• Mike Cox 31st Dec '07 - 9:42am

  I like him “going on about families” because its an area the Tories are trying to monopolise but in reality are just dealing with married couples.

  Nick is dealing with it head on in a liberal way

• Julian H 31st Dec '07 - 12:10pm

  Tax children, I say – don’t help the people that make them. They’re negative externalities, the carbon-emitting little fiends.

  Subsidise single 20-somethings, too. Right on.

• GaffaUK 31st Dec '07 - 2:35pm

  Gadgie – why counter support for an English Parliament? Would it be better to support such legit calls?

• Ariful Islam 31st Dec '07 - 2:52pm

  May all the dreams in your eyes, all the desires in your heart and all
  the hopes in your life blend together, to give you the most spectacular
  New Year ever. Happy New Year

• Julian H 31st Dec '07 - 3:09pm

  “…all the desires in your heart…”

  Yes please, I’d especially like these.

• Antony Hook 31st Dec '07 - 4:24pm

  Talking about families is perfectly sensible.

  Most people care more about their family than they do about themselves as an individual.

• GaffaUK 31st Dec '07 - 5:06pm

  When talking about families it hard to see any politicians from all sides of the spectrum not only agree but say the same message. How many times have you heard from the Tories, Labour and LibDem about more money for families? Unless it is backed up with actual specific policy commitment and how this is costed it can be empty rhetoric. The biggest thing here is scrapping ID cards which has been a long LibDem campaign and campaign against advertising aimed at kids – which I think is a minor issue at best.

• Sid 31st Dec '07 - 5:48pm

  Not bad, some good solid policy stuff in there, which he needs to develop further.

• dreamingspire 1st Jan '08 - 11:31am

  So he still pecks at the edges of the combined NuLab and civil service machine instead of going to the heart of its problems…