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Reply 60
Seriously why was question 4 asked? Surely there were better, more relevent questions...
Reply 61
Mann18
What a good Prime Minister needs is to be able to run the country effectively, maintain order in their party and establish and maintain good international relations.

Not to pander to voters. I do agree though that it's better if the P.M. CAN present themselves and their party well, but substance over style... You wouldn't buy a Ford Escort in a Ferrari body would you?


You will only be able to acheive these with charisma. Having little to no charisma has a negative effect on sustaining these charactteriatics. That's why charisma is one of the most important traits of a good leader.
Reply 62
I can't believe you ignored my 'are you a freemason question'?
Reply 63
Broderss
You will only be able to acheive these with charisma. Having little to no charisma has a negative effect on sustaining these charactteriatics. That's why charisma is one of the most important traits of a good leader.


One of, but not THE most.

Italy's Prime Minister has ****-loads of charisma, but his poor image nuetralises that.
Reply 64
No questions on what ramifications his plans to cut funding of trident and decisions against renewing Britain's nuclear capabillities would have for the country in the long run?

Instead we get, 'What would you do on your gap year Mr Clegg?'

Really?
Reply 65
Why on earth were the questions about gap years etc. in there? Utterly pointless.

Like the internships and Digital Economy Bill...everything else was answered quiet badly IMO.
Fairly good answers on the whole, though I think there were a couple of pointless questions on there.

Still, well done to TSR for getting this done!
GeorgeLwood
The only reason that Cameron and Brown were made to look like bad guys is because they have had the highest share of power over the last 50 years. Clegg pushed in a great deal with unrealistic and impossible radical ideals which he would not accomplish if he were to make PM. (namely in the areas of immigration and defence).
I am impartial in the election as i cannot vote until the next election, however my views are that after the debate last night and after looking at party manifestos and policies that the conservatives would be the logical option. Labour have to go as they have made little or no improvement to the country over the last 13 years in power. The Lib Dems are weak due to their poor and stuck record leader and if in power would be a push over and radicalise the country for the worse!

Lets just see what the next two debates will bring!


Coming from someone who is probably only 17 at the very most?

I'd be interested in hearing why you think that.
We wanted to know how he would run the country not what he would do if he could have another ******* gap year! What plonker chose that question?
Q - Why should maintenance loans be linked to parental income?
A - We want to scrap tuition fees!


Either he dodged the question entirely or has bugger all understanding of higher education funding.
Reply 70
lizfairy
mm it sounded pretty much like top up fees.

Edit: The digital economy bill and the independent drug advisory committee questions have good answers, however, the latter I'm sure was actually an idea of the labour party?

Actually the Labour party sacked Professor Nutt purely because he gave his scientific opinion and the labour party did like it. Currently the government have to get the advice of the drug advisory board, but they don't listen to them, under the lib dems, the government would have no say in what drug classifications were. Their risk to the user and to society would be studied and a class determined that way.

Also, on the original question on tuition fees, Nick Clegg isn't talking about top up fees, he's saying (and its been a long running policy of the party) that University would be free in the UK, in the same way as secondary school and 6th form is free. So how you means test doesn't really matter, because its free anyway.
Reply 71
CJ99
I wish they had put a question on energy in there as the main policy that bothers me about libdems are there nuclear power one!

Excellent interview with Nick Clegg here that was carried out by reddit.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO82IZEk_gA

He talks about it from about 6:10 onwards, its interesting, and seems fairly well thought out. (the rest of the interview is really good too)
WBoy92
How could you honestly waste a question on what he would do on a gap year?! :mad:


Yeah I was pretty annoyed to see that, may as well of asked what his favourite flavour of crisps was.
LostRiot
Actually the Labour party sacked Professor Nutt purely because he gave his scientific opinion and the labour party did like it. Currently the government have to get the advice of the drug advisory board, but they don't listen to them, under the lib dems, the government would have no say in what drug classifications were. Their risk to the user and to society would be studied and a class determined that way.

Also, on the original question on tuition fees, Nick Clegg isn't talking about top up fees, he's saying (and its been a long running policy of the party) that University would be free in the UK, in the same way as secondary school and 6th form is free. So how you means test doesn't really matter, because its free anyway.


This is essentially what I would have said.
Keoje
I saw that too. :mad: Might aswell ask him what he likes for din dins


Lol, same here I spotted it too. I think the aim was to depict his well rounded personality perhaps. :rolleyes: made me laugh though
LostRiot
Actually the Labour party sacked Professor Nutt purely because he gave his scientific opinion and the labour party did like it. Currently the government have to get the advice of the drug advisory board, but they don't listen to them, under the lib dems, the government would have no say in what drug classifications were. Their risk to the user and to society would be studied and a class determined that way.

Also, on the original question on tuition fees, Nick Clegg isn't talking about top up fees, he's saying (and its been a long running policy of the party) that University would be free in the UK, in the same way as secondary school and 6th form is free. So how you means test doesn't really matter, because its free anyway.


Mmm no he very well dodged the question. Also, if that were the case, where would he be making such huge cuts elsewhere?

It's all very lovely if we ignore the unlikelihood of his reliance on 'if'. Obviously not having a chance as the main battle is between labour and tories lib dems thought it safe to not be so honest about their planned expenditure... No problem in that it's just having not been in power it's easy to appear untarnished.
Grrrrrr, annoyed he ignored the question about means testing.
Reply 77
I like the answers Clegg gave. He did really well in the debata as well. Interesting
Reply 78
He's never going to see this, but...thank you for taking the time to answer my question!
Reply 79
2010 Election

"You're right, there are now a lot of interns working very hard and getting paid little or nothing for it. The danger is ending up in a situation where internships are exclusive to those young people whose parents can afford to help them. Internships can be an amazing way of getting a flavour for a possible career when you’re young and that option should be open to as many young people as possible. I know myself how fantastic that experience can be – I got to intern in New York, working on a magazine called 'The Nation’ for Christopher Hitchens. Opening up the opportunity to intern to more people is important to my party, and we have a plan to create 800,000 internships in our first year in office, helping all the young people now struggling to find work. We've made sure that those places will be paid at £55 a week – enough to cover basic costs, and more than you get collecting Job Seekers' Allowance."


He seriously thinks getting paid £1.37/hour is enough to cover basic costs ? - for a lot of people that won't even cover food + transport let alone rent.

I'm sure £55 will help a small minority of people, but by and large it's not going to be enough help anyone who can't afford to do an unpaid internship. I'm guessing the majority of people who take it up would be people who would have done an unpaid internship anyway.