Nick Clegg on Mumsnet this Thursday (16th Sept) evening between 8 and 9 pm

[JustineMumsnet]

We're delighted that the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, will be joining us for a webchat this Thursday evening 8 and 9pm.

Next week the Deputy PM will be joining other world leaders, celebrities and business leaders who are gathering in New York for the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit. He will be aiming for global action to reduce the shocking number of women who die during pregnancy and childbirth in the world's poorest countries.

Nick is happy to answer your questions on the UN summit as well as on his role as Deputy Prime Minster. Join us on Thursday evening or if you can't make it along then post your question (one each only please) here.

Thanks.

Nick supports breastfeeding and thinks midwives are great.

Well knock me down with a feather.

Platitude central here.

ruthie48 - Midwives became midwives to be 'with woman'. Instead of that we are rapidly becoming 'with pen and paper', retirement is a threat but so is the bureaucracy.

@champagnesupernova

Hello Mr Clegg,
Are you relieved that the decision to renew Trident has been shelved ?

I know a few people have asked about Trident. It's a thing that we openly disagree with the Conservatives about. I hope people find that refreshing about the Coalition - we're from different parties and we have separate ideas about things like Trident, and we reflected that openly in our Coalition Agreement.

I've always said that a nuclear deterrent system designed in the 1960s to flatten Moscow at the touch of a button was not necessarily the only option in today's world. The threats we face are very different. And with the public finances left in a mess by Labour, I think it's worth exploring alternative systems. That is why the Liberal Democrats will continue to champion alternatives to the system, even as the Government as a whole is committed to renewal subject to a value for money review of the whole system.

lol missbeehiving

I miss Gordon Brown so much. For all his faults he was a moral man, who cared for the poor. Perhaps that is the reason he was hated by the Conservatives.

static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2010/4/8/1270729329054/Nick-Clegg-the-Liberal-De-001.jpg Hey Nick, I think your hair looks really nice in this photo :)

questions on education......

Yes polly, anyone would think ol' Nick has been reading up on MN wouldn't they?!

THis is a waste of time. I'm off to watch Jon Stewart.

Gordon, if you or Sarah are looking in, we miss you! Come back for a chat!

I agree with policywonk. I'd like to know, as a matter of practicalities, what the UK will actually be funding in, for example, Sierra Leone and how that will be focused on supporting women's health.

I think he may have gone to have a cup of tea and a biscuit. What is your favourite biscuit Nick?

Hey I voted Lib Dem and think that they have been quite right to go into coalition - politics is not black and white, times are particularly 'interesting' and I suspect that David Cameron is relieved to be far freer to do what his instincts tell him to do in coalition as it effectively keeps the Tory backwoodsman off his back (who dear Mumsnetters we all want to keep out of actual governing). Personally I wuold opt for the PM to have young/school age children living at home as a requirement of the job!

if the way the couhntry carries on i say bring back gordon brown.

I come from Good Welsh Mining Stock.

You know the sort that voted Labour all of their lives?

I was "lucky" enough to have been born in the South East and to have lived my life in London, getting a job in the City of London was easy and my section of our family prospered.

The rest of my family remain in S.Wales. In a poor ex-mining area.

At the time of the general election, I asked my family how they had voted, they all said that they had voted LibDem. They and my small family in London were ready to give something new a try.

Who knew that we and they had signed our own debt warrant?

Who knew?

Is anyone else thinking about little Zoe and the "I just want Tony Blair to come back" crying fit?

Fawcett Society question??

If you answer it, we might be more convinced that you have concern for women

The sheer gall of the DPM who thinks he can come on here, chuck a few crumbs re: action against third world maternal mortality and we'll all think 'ah well, his heart's in the right place'. Answer some of the more difficult questions please Mr Clegg. Like the one about the Fawcett Society.

I'm with policywonk.

I get that this is the first chance many people have had to convey to Nick Clegg exactly how angry and disturbed they are by his actions. IMO the anger at him is justified.

But its a shame that the issue that he came on to discuss, which is vital, is also getting overlooked so throughly.

Mr Clegg could you please address Maiakins question regarding your apparently conflicting priorities in overseas development?

Amapoleon

I would like to know what concrete actions we can take about FGM, in this country as a starting point, instead of brushing it under the carpet as a cultural issue. It isnt, its a human rights issue.

Framey....he's picking and choosing his Q/A....SURPRISE....sell out ...remember David Lloyd George?(well,actually i don't,that is,he was before my time)but this guy wants to be up there in government.....just like Lloyd George did.....Blah...can't stick him..wasted vote..will NEVER do it again

Mr. Clegg,
please can you answer the Fawcett Society question??