Did anyone hear Nick Clegg's speech to the Lib Dem conference?

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I heard it on Five Live.

I thought he was jolly good. It was well written and he delivered it very well. I liked the refrains of social justice.

Anyone hear it?

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My DH heard it and said he might be voting Lib Dem, which stopped me in my tracks (he's a tory usually. Thinks Maggie was A Good Thing - but thinks David Cameron is a weakling and not very bright). Is it online anywhere? Might need to read this and be converted. Am so disillusioned with all politics these days...

text of speech

Yes. It was rather good. Have been very disillusioned with Lib Dems recently, but - it was good.

no, I was watching paint dry busy

GOD - I thought it was AWFUL!! He looked like a 6th former in a debating contest - and all that YUK stuff about little old ladies he's met.

It made me laugh at the end when the BBC commentator described it as a 'good, but not great' speech and reminded us that his nickname is 'Cameron-Lite' (i.e. a bit like Cameron, but with less..)

I can never look at him without thinking about his ill-fated comment about having slept with 'not more than 20 women' or soemthing.....

fallenmadonna, do you get out much?

Bloody cheek

hehehe IKWYM about the women

He is all right though

I do get the Cameron Lite thing but that is just because he is clean and wholesome looking but without being a raving right winger

But no....

SIL knew cleggy when they both lived in Brussels....

quick question from foreigner

• will anyone pay attention to the Lib Dems without proportional representation?

and would that be desirable?

will catch speech later always do, politics addiction

DH was at school with him & thought he was a wet & a weed. Perfect LibDem fodder then

yup, just check it out

BORING

No. I have no interest in the Lib Dems.

My mum heard it and told us that he was jolly good, which made my dad snort in a contemptuous kind of way and call him a pratt, which made me hiss 'Dadddd' at him and nod head toward the children in a pointlessly obvious away.

That was our polictiacl discussion for today.

I do like the conference speeches though, and tend to want to vote for whoevers speesch I heard last.

I am fickle and sentimental.

It must be great being leader of the Lib Dems.

...you can promise anything at all, and know there is no chance of ever having to deliver!

"Free bananas for all pensioners!"

"Mocha frappacinos to be banned forthwith!"

"October 15th to be declared 'Gurning For All Day'"

I believe these were all in the text

Or not.

Who cares?

My dad describes him, in disgusted fashion, as 'a fornicator' which not only is hilariously 17th century but probably wildly inaccurate too...

"a fornicator"

Splendid.

Will sound best delivered in Ian Paisley's voice.

He lived round the corner from us. I always found him a bit slimy...

...they are all slimy, those fornicators...

(still troubled by image of Rev Paisley)

...well in a North Tyneside, fearsome ex-teacher voice in this case . I can't think of many, (real, living) people other than Paisley with such a fabulously several-centuries-out-of-date attitude to life. Quite remarkable.

retiredgoth for Presidetn!

I accept the presidential nomination...

...in the sure knowledge that my pronouncements will carry as much weight as those of the Slimy Fornicator.

Oh dear.