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

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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.

Edam - at the memory of ghastly German!

I always wish they'd offered Spanish at school, would have done far better in my A-Levels if they had. God only knows why I thought learning German would be fun at 16.

Nick, you have really let me down. I have always voted LibDem, not as a protest vote but because I really agreed with your policies. How can you look me in the face having reneged upon or diluted so many of them to support the conservatives? Some things are more important than power.

Dear Nick. I voted for you. What the hell happened?!

Hi Nick

Do you really think anyone gives a monkey's about electoral reform when they are losing their livelihoods in their droves?

Nick Clegg, words fail me.

As for treating you as I would a guest, you would NEVER be invited to the family home. (The home we will probably lose when dh ans I lose our public sector job and interest rates go through the roof. This despite the fact that we have always worked hard, paid contributions, tried to do the right thing...)

And I think that you going to New York to sanctimoniously and hypocritically pontificate about the life chances of poor women and children (whilst supporting the systematic dismantling of one basic support structure after another for poor women and children!!) just totally and utterly takes the

How do you sleep? How do you look in the mirror? How will history judge you????

Good post, msyikes

I can't think of any other politician, ever, who has so swiftly & apparently unconcernedly sold himself, his party & his supporters down the river

Well, this is going to go down like a lead balloon.

I won't be participating because, as my father always says, 'Trying to teach a dog to read is a pointless endeavour.'

Nick, I heard recently that you don't have a departmental team behind you. Judging by the response on this thread can I recommend someone?

Surely he will either call in sick or just stick to a pre-prepared script about the maternal stuff?

I mean, how could he deal with this?

'Dear MN

Vesela I love you

I quite like PR, biscuits and David Cameron but not poor people

Bye then'

to speedy!!! He won't be seen in history..he will be history soon though!!

Actually its MNHQ I feel for - not only do they have to wade through this thread and pick out the questions for NC to answer but they also have to sit next to him whilst he reads them..

No questions as others have put it far more eloquently than me but just as my mum used to say to me - 'I'm very disappointed in you'

Cant wait for the election till labour get back in,your party have sold your soul to the devil. Looks like were going back to the thatcher years when she killed the country.

Your blaming everything on labour,it wasnt labour that caused the recession,it was the bank crash that caused it thats why country all over the world are in recession,labour were leading us out of it.

Now we may end up worst off because your cutting jobs here there and everywhere,how do you think people are going to spend cash if they have no work? and those that do have work wont want to spend because they are unsure if they will still have a job in a years time.

As for benefits,can you please tell me how you propose on getting people back to work when theres no jobs and your cutting them????

Once again the poor are being penalized,while the rich get richer,labour werent brilliant,but t least they tried to do theyre bit for the poor.

shame on the lot of you,i will be going out of my way to vote labour when the election comes round.

msyikes,they dont care about us,we are small people,we dont count,all that matters to them are theyre bit fat pay cheques.

Oh and while we are at it!!!!! how the heck can you send billions in aid to pakistan when apparently this country is billions in debt? can you please answer that?

we should be sorting this country out first and foremost,not donating money we dont have to other countrys.

MNHQ - Please please can you ensure Nick Clegg reads the whole thread, not just selected questions? There is SUCH depth of feeling, and he has to know how people actually feel about what's happened, not just read a few sanitised questions. If he is interested in knowing how the electorate feel, this is a pretty good example, and really shows how ordinary people (to coin a phrase that I really never wanted to hear again, 'hard working families) are suffering or are terrified about the future.

How do you consolidate the idea of removing the aid certain African states will get with reducing maternal deaths?

Andrew Mitchell's comments regarding Sierra Leone

And I'm not even going to mention all the other questions regarding UK policy, of which there are hundreds, but suffice to say as a Liberal voter, I'm no longer a Liberal supporter.

OOh I have thought of a question.

Why ring fence NHS and Edcuation spending in the budget cuts and cut funding for frontline social care? In my area this means that SWs are losing jobs, we can no longer provide essential services to families (particularly those with disabilities) and what happens to those that are left when there is the next Baby P case?

He's not going to read the entire thread, Lily.

And even if he did, it would be like throwing water on a duck's back because the man just doesn't want to get it.

Oh and another thing,are your partys insane????? police cuts? excuse me we need more police on the beat not less!!!!take manchester for instance shootings everyday,violence,people cant feel safe walking down the street,same for blackpool,but that doesnt matter to people like you,because you live in nice areas where you can walk down the street saftley!

that programme that was on a few months back,where all the mps went to stay in tower blocks in london,do these things not teach you people anything????? theres proper deprivation out there where people are staying in slums,why dont you get off your butts and go live on the dole PROPERLY for a year,and go seeking work,then you may actually get a PROPER feel of this country.

Am throughly disgusted with this goverment.

expat, you are probably right. But I think it would be good if MNHQ could at least encourage him to read it, just to get an idea of how people are feeling. I am sick of hearing them on the Today programme saying that the 'man on the street' is still very positive about the coalition.

I find it very interesting that whilst there are still people defending the Tories there isn't people flocking on here to defend NC.

I do feel sorry for MNHQ. I imagine it is a difficult situation for them 'umm, Mr Clegg, I know you wanted to talk about maternal death, there have been 3 questions on that subject and 104 emotive posts saying you have sold your soul the the devil. Cup of tea?'

I think that's because, although I do not like the Tory philosophy, they are being true to their own position, Tories have always been about small State, privatisation, market forces etc etc. If you voted Tory, you voted for what you're getting now.

The LDs have abandoned their principles and sold out simply to taste power. And a LOT of their campaign was based on 'Only a Lib Dem vote can keep the Tories out'. Which was a lie.