to be irritated by this Nick Clegg love-in?

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I can't believe some of the comments I've read on here.

Somehow NC must be above reproach; it doesn't matter if there are expenses questions, donor questions, any questions. And heaven forfend that he is quizzed on policy. How very dare anyone challenge him? It would be soooo mean.

David Cameron is on the receiving end of comments on here about his poshness, but NC's privileged background is OK. Likewise his children attending a favoured Catholic primary school (because his wife is a Catholic - he isn't and professes atheism) - that's fine. But if DC sends his children to a nice faith school - that's bad. (Both as bad as each other, there, imo.)

If people support NC's "fairness" he keeps banging on about, then at least be fair in challenging him as well!

I'll get Amanda H., too. She'd be able to guide us on this.

"For the Euro, I'm not against the UK joining, just not now."

It certainly wasn't described as policy to join the Euro immediately, when Clegg was interviewed yesterday on R4.

He said it would be a choice for voters, so if the public voted against, that would be that.

I guess it's unpopular for the "punch and judy" parties to acknowledge there's any other party that is "in with a chance" but he's not going to go away any time soon, so get used to it.

WD they I thinka re assuming that NC would do a Labour and backtrack on the referendum. Which really is unfair isn't it? Jusge myu aprty on what they want to do rather than their history- and your party on the istory of a different one

longfingernails I agree with you, in that I agree with them on Iraq etc but really not economically.

YANBU AT ALL!!!! It's such a relief that some people aren't prepared to jump on the Clegg bandwagon!

Nick was brilliant again!!!! personally Im sick of hearing Gorden claim he is doing the right thing!!!I am so glad Nick wants to reduce spending on nuclear defence and want him to reduce the money this country spends on nuclear weapons I feel ashamed to be English its like we with america are the ofsted of the world how dare they go looking for weapons of mass destruction in iraq not find them and then bomb inoccent people.I want to be proud to be engish again So nick wants to be a force for good in the world he seems a lot more real than gorden im sick of the claims the local labour party make in this town and a local paper that on your say for years hasnt allowed anyone to include the name of the local labour leader it just says unsuitable word!!!Labour seem devious too me i agreed with what david cameron said about labour lies .Nick wants small classes in schools maybe just 20 in a class at last !!My daughter was at a primary school with classes of 37.Guess what the labour council made the school even bigger they added another school a few years ago .Im voting for change and i dont want to be ashamed to be english so nick seems the right choice for me!!

Charlotte: I will ask you as I have others

DWhy do you think everyone who may vote for NC has jumped on a bandwagon? Do you recognise that LD had seats before teh leader's deabtes and maybe some people voted for them last time arund?

Now, I am still torn between teo posts on final vote but absolutely LD in the running and as I have been involved loosely since the whole SLD era I don't think I can recently have been said to have jumped on any bandwagon and TBH i resent the general implication from seceral people that anyone who votes LD is a lightweight turned by a nice smile and a bit of TV coverage.

euro is bad! can we not keep some vestiges of britain for ourselves before we are engulfed totally and irevocably by europe?

i rather think that people are voting for the man and not listening to the policies. but the lib dems and europe are bossom buddies.

to be fair, i'd rather have brown, and that is saying something.

"Nick wants small classes in schools maybe just 20 in a class at last !!My daughter was at a primary school with classes of 37".

I agree this sounds wonderful - but how on earth are the Lib Dems going to do this? It would mean either building hundreds of new schools or concreting over playgrounds to put in the extra classes which would be needed. I'm seriously struggling to see how it would work where I live. Our school is already very short on outside space and given that we live in the middle of a large and crowded city, I cannot see where they'd find (and afford) the space to build dozens more schools.

I have a funny feeling that if the Lib Dems really thought that there was a chance that Nick Clegg was going to be the next PM they wouldn't be making pledges like this one. I actually find it quite scary that people are thinking of voting Lib Dem on the basis of policies which are utterly impractical and unrealistic.

I think that it is wonderful that he at least has the aim to have small classes-the rest give research to show that big classes make no difference-I suspect because they can only afford big classes. I know as a teacher that the thing that helps me most is a small class and if I was to pay for education the main reason would be small classes. HOWEVER -I agree that the Lib Dems wouldn't be able to pay for it.

Exactly, they won't be able to pay for it, so they shouldn't be offering it in the first place.

How do you annoy Heather Mills?

Nick Clegg