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.

Stop giving him stick for how long it takes him to reply. It's probably really hard work typing out everything David is telling him to.

Did he cut and paste the wrong question?

That doesn't even nearly answer it ?

Why has the govt not even taken the decency to respond to the Fawcett Society?

no moral it isnt ;)

Nick, if you're reading through the whole thread, does that mean some of the questions that don't get answered in the next 14 minutes will be answered at a later date?

@cupcakesandbunting

Very well put, ShirleyKnot

If I'd wanted to be dragged kicking and screaming back into Thatcherism, I'd have voted Cameron. Turns out I and many of my friends and family voted Clegg and got dragged back to Thatcherism anyway...

I understand that people are very anxious about what is coming. The public's finances are a mess. We have to make difficult decisions about cuts because it is not liberal, progressive or fair to force our children to pay back our debts. Instead of putting money in the pocket of bonds dealers who profit from our rapidly increasing debt, we should be spending it on the public services that matter to us all.

I also hear it's going to be like Thatcher and the 1980s again. Let me be clear, this is nothing like the 1980s. Then whole communities and industries were gutted. I'm an MP from a great Northern city - Sheffield - and I know that people there and across the country fear the spectre of the 1980s. But we are doing things very differently - taking low paid workers out of paying tax altogether; high-speed rail; a £1bn regional growth fund to help places like Sheffield; a huge job creation programme through a Green Deal to properly insulate our homes; a Pupil Premium with real money to help the most disadvantaged children; a national insurance tax break for companies starting up in economically deprived areas, a triple locked pension guarantee.

Are you going to take as aggressive steps to attack tax evaders and change the tax evasion rules to make taxation fairer or are you just going after the poor?

Eh?

You have already answered that

Nick, Nick, that answer to the Fawcett question was rubbish. Please do better than that.

pupil premium sounds good but to be honest I get sick and tired of those parents who sit at home NOT looking for work and playing the system and now you're telling me that their children are going to get more than mine, who went back to work, missed out on things like first steps because they did it at nursery when I was in work - come on how about thinking outside the box rather than the same old, same old....

Mr Clegg,
Simple question for you to answer. Sure start, you supported it and now you've done a U Turn.
Explain please!

this must be the worst MN performance by a politician ever (& that's saying something )

Mr Clegg do you think you are reasurring any of the people who doubt the efficacy and morality of the coalition government with the answers that you are giving this evening?

Sure Sheffield is delighted with the loyalty you showed to Forgemasters

This whole thread shows the terrible beauty of British politics.

Look at us all twisting and turning and getting ourselves in a knot, while the politician gives us pat answers which mean nothing. Nothing.

We can't take back those votes. Nick can't take back that decision.

We're all just spinning in this tornado of tory policy

@amothersplaceisinthewrong

What exactly is your position on Tuition fees for Undergraduates, Mr Clegg? At one time you wanted to abolish them....

I still don't like tuition fees, I think they discourage young people from going to university who are intimidated by the prospect of sky high debt. that's why we're looking at different options, including the possible alternative of a graduate contribution scheme where graduates pay back to their university dependent on what they earn after they leave university, which would be far more progressive than current arrangements. but this is fraught with practical difficulties, so we don't yet know whether this is worth trying out in practice.

I started this webchat fairly pro-Nick and I am now a bit anti....

Nick - are you going to give Forgemasters the money they were promised then? That might have some impact on Sheffield.

Do you think that your constituency, the only one which was previously Tory, will let another LibDem in?

here's one we REALLY need an answer on...... Will you come back for another chat one day Nick and actually answer the questions?

With you there sethstarkaddersmum

answer the question please, Mr Clegg.

CheekyLittleSox....thank you for that...i was just wondering

and " I agree with Nick" must feel a very long time ago?

What about Sheffield Forgemasters though Nick? You sold them down the river.

Anything about your mate Andy Coulson before you go?

We know he knew you know

I thought this chat was supposed to be about the UN summit?