[TheHistoryStudent]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18139454

What do we think?

[No Man]

I hope it does break up just so that his mind implodes.

[meenu89]

If he had had his way we would be in the damn thing already.

[Democracy]

I suppose once the electorate tell him and his party where to go in 2015, he'll be looking for a job in Europe so it's really just self-preservation

[Martyn*]

This is just common sense. When in times of economic insecurity extremist political groups, whether Communists, Marxist Socialists or Neo-Nazis will, often rise-up. It's an emotional protest against dire conditions.

[Ra.One]

I think we shuld ignore anything that Clegg says.

[justmyopinions]

Just abolish the EU, go back 100% independent and then the road to recovery will be underway! Better sooner than later, because it will happen eventually.

[Herr]

We have to look at it in perspective, one reason UK now has very low interest rates is because there is generally a trust that HM Government would always pay and honour it's debt obligations, gilts have always paid, the same can't be said about the vast majority of Europe where defaults happen every other decade or so.

The breakup of the Euro might indeed see a rise in extremism, no doubt about it, remember the Nazi party also rose to fame because of hardships during the Weimar era. If we look at the situation in Greece now, extremism has already set in with their extreme right Golden Dawn party winning a fair few seats.

While NC is an *******, not everything that comes out of his mouth is garbage.

[ApresAlkan]

If Greece leaves the Euro having defaulted on its debts, the EU will break up. This would be disastrous for everybody, Britain included. It would cause untold socio-economic chaos and cause nothing but problems. The EU must continue! Why on Earth does anybody want out of it?

[Classical Liberal]

Clegg is right. What is going on now is very very dangerous.

[Antifascist]

I'd prefer a rise in extremism than the current rise in islam.

[Morgsie]

Nick has a point.

[meenu89]

(Original post by Morgsie)
Nick has a point.

You should have typed 'I agree with Nick'....

[Carter78]

This is nothing new, extremism always rises in times of hardship.

[Tycho]

Clegg is correct (did I really just say that? ).

[prog2djent]

I'd love to see, say, greece elect a communist party, hungary to adopt a far-right party (the one in power is the equivelant of UKIP and the main opposition are a Hungarian Front-nationalist BNP style party!), a a few far-left parties here and there, no, not like the so-called French "socialist party" too, I mean proper leftists, but central and eastern europe, always has a tendancy to lean towards nationalist leftism, too, maybe some Classical liberal parties arise in Austria, Denmark, Holland, etc etc

We could see all the different systems, watch a bunch fail, watch a bunch suceed, and makes particular groups of people eat their words.

[muddywaters51]

(Original post by prog2djent)
We could see all the different systems, watch a bunch fail, watch a bunch suceed, and makes particular groups of people eat their words.

No one will eat their words there will always be excuses for why it failed

[ukip72]

Clegg is a bit behind since its already happened in Greece. I hope see's what his beloved Euro project has resulted in.