Chris Huhne and Nick Clegg have submitted their answers to five video questions posted on YouTube and selected by Acting Returning Officer Chris Rennard. Today’s answers are on the first bill the candidates would introduce as Prime Minster.
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😀 This is really not getting any easier!
Honestly, how will we ever get these two to agree on anything? 😉
For the first time in this campaign someone has said something which has impressed me.
I was pretty unhappy in the “90 days” debate that our MPs went along with the doubling of the detention without trial without really looking at whether a strong case was being made for that increase.
Chris seems to be saying he would propose reversing this and taking it back to 14.
Not a finance or localizing bill then – how disappointing!
The Freedom Bill may be sexy, and I agree that it’s necessary, maybe even an “easy win”, but I’d prefer a radical marker of change like devolving massive amounts of power and responsibility to local government.
I suppose one could argue that such would take a long time to draft where a Freedom Bill is just potentially a list of things from the last ten years to be repealed, but I do think that if we are serious about some of our policies on complex issues such as localism we ought also to have definite proposals set up in advance that are well enough worked up as part of our offering to the public to be able to table them on day one of any putative Lib Dem government.