Nick Clegg: The Liberal Democrats are changing Britain

[joc69uk32]

liberals are nothing but sissy retards

[RadicalWhig]

No different. Just the same. I've never been so let down. Clegg is a liar. Never voting LibDem again while he is leader.

[rus524]

this wanker loses seats as he is shit, he says the tories are crap, then he joins them. he is a liar and a fraud. he is a loser then he becomes deputy PM. what a joke. he is a total wanker, and a fucking prick. he is camerons puppy. do this clegg you useless twat, and clegg says ok david. what a wanker

[2edsajdmsa]

@rus524 You're a retard. Their parties haven't joined, they have come together to form a government. Theres nothing illegal or immoral. You can disagree with someone and still work together.

[QuayIssues]

The Liberal Democrats have changed.... into Tories.

Listening to this guy's cant and empty platitudes makes my soul bleed. Such a depressing character.

[DickieDumbkins]

Fake.

[cris750]

LibDem/SNP/SinnFein/Welsh/etc. = United Kingdom ! while... Torres = England ! If they go it alone then there is a theme for the next election ! I have a new idea for the next manufacturing theme and tax scheme that is in different catogories from 0% to 9% sort of a variable idea. If the US wont do it then the UK could do it. Evacuation of the Labour party into the LibDems during this time and afterwards.

[cris750]

LibDems should approach the smaller parties with similar ideas then find out which of the two top parties are going to accept the proposal from the LibDems/allies. For instance, the Alliance party in Northern Ireland and the Green Party,etc.

[umbongoapg]

clegg=obama= you tube the obama deception... obama has done nothing he promised his people.

[H4YK8Y]

I agree with Nick

[twiddlingthumbs2]

More like people in Britain desperatly do not want you in power. People who vote Lib Dem must be insain

[GAGJ42]

I admire the fact you are following your own decision. Its right that people question the orthodoxy regularly but on this point I am really not convinced. Geologists and climatologists look at complex information in which it is easy to make a kettle out of a toaster. Physicists, chemists and engineers who work upon straight forward scientific models are convinced upon it.

[Mickmars90]

Have you ever read Black Swan by Nassim Taleb? He makes the point that all of these models are useless, mainly because they are static. The UK Treasury uses static economic models instead of dynamic ones.

I am a libertarian right winger, yet the idea of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis and Rational Expectations is complete bunkum because we are driven by far more than 'rational' decision making.

These climate models make the same mistakes as economic models. They are error ridden

[GAGJ42]

You clearly don't understand the difference between dynamic and static models. A dynamic model uses time as a variable, tell me how can a model for climate 'CHANGE' not account for time?!!!!!!!

[Mickmars90]

I was talking about economic models in terms of static and dynamic, though the principle can be applied to climate models. The weather men cannot predict one week in front of them, yet all of these alarmists claim computer models prove an inexorable march into warmer climate. It dosen't wash.

The planet has not warmed since 1998

[GAGJ42]

The planet is warmer. Weather experts predict weather with accuracy, they make mistakes but its not random guessing. You're wrong about models. Static is 'still' like a snapshot and dynamic is 'change' as in over time. All climate models account for time, ergo dynamic. The treasury employs bright people who probably use static models because there are advantages to using them as well as dynamic ones. Thats why both exist. I use both at uni depends what it is your trying to prove.

[Mickmars90]

The idea that a party with 60+ MP's are changing a country is hilarious and just demonstrates the arrogance and shitfaced opportunism of this party.

The Tories in the 80's were the first to highlight climate change, wrongly I believe because it is a myth. The Lib Dems only opposed the war after teh 2nd UN resolution failed. Their leader and Shadow treausry spokesman can't even agree on the Euro.

[bbukfan]

They control local government in the UK far more than Labour and at a relatively competitive stance with the Conservatives. Also, their MPs vs popular vote is massively disproportionate; 22+% of the vote went to the Lib Dems in 2005.

[Mickmars90]

That means 78% didn't. The Lib Dums can't even finish third on their own preferred vote measure because they approach Europe with the same enthusiasm with which a paedophile approaches a child.

[GAGJ42]

Well your clearly in the know. Saying you don't believe in climate change is like saying you don't believe in China. Looking past insumountable scientific evidence have you not noticed hotter and wetter summers. Snow is rare. Increased weather disasters. If you mean you don't believe in the human role in climate change then consider at least that earth naturally changes climate does not account for a 2.3'C change in 50 years compared to the earths normal 0.5'C change in a millenium.

[Mickmars90]

I don't deny climate change. I deny global warming. The climate is always changing, it always has, and always will. Global warming on the other hand stopped in 1998.  The planet, and even the alarmists acknowledge this, hasn't heated since 1998, and the fall in temperatures over the last 3 years has cancelled out the net rise in temperature during the 20th century.

[GIW2009]

The Liberal Democrats are pro-EU. A vote for them is a vote for turning the UK into a state of the European Federal Superstate. Never vote Lib-Dem.

Vote UKIP on June 4th.

[Mickmars90]

I will be voting for UKIP. Pro-Europeans like to say anti-EU people are ''insular'' and backwards, but it is them who are insular and backward. Whereas they see Europe, I see the world e.g. America, China, India, Mexico and Brazil.

[greengreen31]

Screw it. I hope Liberal Democrats get in anyway or Conservative as long as we don't get extremists being elected at the either end of the wings. :D

[greengreen31]

I'm only 16 so i can't vote but i'm glad cause at the moment, i wouldn't know who to vote. Putting aside the benefits scandal, i still wouldn't know. i beleive in liberalism; everything left-wing but i wouldn't want labour being put into power and i know that the liberal democrats would never get in. :|

[fakweet]

If you support the lib dem's views you should vote for them. Anyway your vote will put them one step closer to obtaining power one day.

[blackchimp99]

If only they didn't waste tax money on personal gain like every party. I just got a bit of post from labour saying the lib dems wants to legalize weed and stop prision sentences for drug possession. I might vote for them.

[theLdogg]

lol

[Mickmars90]

You agreed in principle to the Iraq war. You only voted against it because the UN didn't grant a second mandate. The Illiberal Democrats always lie.

There is no such thing as anthropogenic global warming, so please stop peddling that myth. The planet hasn't warmed since 1998, and the falls in average temperature last year cancelled out the net rise of the 20th century. We are technically in an ice age, so any natural warming is welcome for economic and health reasons.

[GAGJ42]

For that to be true, greenhouse gases would have to not absorb heat. They do. I don't get all this conspiracy theory shit. It just doesn't fit with reality. Global warming is one of the most researched topics in the world, of course there are a few stray/anomaly studies. It was once said that there was a link between MMR vaccine and autism and the NHS are still picking up the pieces of that small scale, flawed and confounded study.

[Mickmars90]

There are many people who object to anthropogenic global warming, and they include geologists and climatologists. Many centuries ago, informed scientific opinion stated the earth was flat and that the sun revolved around us. A few dared to go against the prevailing orthodoxy and they were right. There have been periods in history that are a lot warmer than now e.g. Roman period, Middle Ages. The evidence is there, just read it.

[ScAAshby23]

liberals are fucking faggots and will ruin the world if put in power

[bongoboy8]

in the next you will as big if not even bigger than labour in the next election. lib dems have got my vote

[RobDeManc]

I think the lib dems have a great opportunity over the next year. They could show themselves as the party the public can trust. I think they should be bold over the coming months and make some concrete policy announcements, unlike the soundbites that come from David Cameron.

[anthonyo4]

vince cables seems like a credible man id be happy to let him run the economy but clegg seems like a lightweight taking on all the 'safe' non controversial issues and libdem are pro EU... not good

[Posthuman7]

Go Lib Dems, its a bit unfare how they come up with a lot of good points which no one gives them credit for and then they get stolen.

I think theyd be a good government.

[Germanator93]

liberal greetings from germany!

[RoCkErX285]

hey it's David Cameron Light

[Mickmars90]

He's also a pretentious prig. Vince Cable has been built up by the media to be some sort of economic guru. He and his party called for even more spending and higher taxes when we had the fourth largest budget deficit in the developed world. That is economic madness. He flip flops around the major issues. He can shout loud because he is the leader of a small party that will be wiped out at the next election and his comments don't matter. Cameron and Osborne have to play politics cleverly.

[Mickmars90]

All of this is a lie. The Liberals only voted against the Iraq war on the second reading.  They didn't bother at first because of the UN resolution. The Tories have been the main party of civil liberties. The Liberals exist as a protest vote, but they are going to get hammered at the next election because the economic conditions are not conducive for a protest vote. And everything Mr Clegg says contradicts something he said earlier. He was a member of the Cambridge Tory Association.

[Ilikenuman]

lol technically speaking obama is a liberal democrat ^^.

but obviously not in the same context.

[ReverandCiderMan]

Nick Clegg is an intelligent and considerate person. Which is why its so fucking irritating that he uses exactly the same manourisms and condescending tones as Blair and Cameron. Still gonna vote lib dem, but can we really not find someone who has more a good education in body language.

[darkspeed62]

I am considering voting for the Lib Dems next elections. Though I don't know much about their party beyond Clegg and Cable.

[Erech01]

Look up their policies on their website, or even wiki would do.

[Thehides]

i think that britain is ready for a revolution; labour is on its knees and conservatives just dont add up. The liberal democrats are the ones who seem to actually deliver what they promise when then are elected into office. Liberal democrats are the only ones with the guts to say what they truely think and the others just seem to hide behind policies and long words.

[butifulfelicity]

@Thehides Because they have nothing to lose as they have never been in power. Just wait and see! They are joined by the hip to Europe which is costing £45 million a day also have jobs and pensions there . It is a gravy train paid for by you. They love it . We will have no say at all soon being controlled from Brussels but perhaps you want that.

[karuspery]

Get rid of Islam. Lower taxes by half. Afford me the opportunity to save and own my own home.Deport ALL illegal aliens and anyone else that is anti British. Give me a future and my kids a future and I will vote for you. Right now,it's all the same old Shit so I am voting BNP along with my kids and my neighbours and friends.We are fed up.

[binstig]

To be honest I'm fed up with Racist BNP voters who don't add anything to society other than hatred for others. Now waddle off back to your corner and catch up on the latest shit from the Daily Mail.

[thesidinator]

well said

i love how karuspery wants to half taxes but fails to mention what expenditures he would also do away with

[Thehides]

I agree with David Laws; EMA is PATHETIC and needs to sort it out. I am a liberal democrat through and through!

[modernman00]

If this was US, we would have had the Liberal Democrat in Govt..its the party of the people. i think we young people with liberal minds should support the Liberal Democrat..

[Thehides]

I agree completely.

[CanaleSilvio]

Hi, I'm new to the LibDems and really like what I hear. I'm looking for libdem friends to talk about the party.

[BobbyTheGorilla]

Clegg mentioned the Lib Dems being in power in Scotland. I remember that. They were socially illiberal in Holyrood.

For example, one socially liberal policy should be to legalise prostitution. Yet they voted to make tolerance zones legally unsustainable.

They don't really believe in liberalism or anything else for that matter.

The Lib Dems are weak & gutless opportunists who'll sing to any tune.

[BobbyTheGorilla]

I used to be a Lib Dem. But I signed the cannabis votes pledge on the pledgebank website promising not to vote for any candidate that wants to keep cannabis illegal regardless of their party or any other policies they have.

Since the Lib Dem MPs seem to be trying to back peddle on their decriminalisation policy I doubt I'll be voting Lib Dem again, although it does depend on who the local candidate is - I might be lucky and get one of the few good ones to vote for.

[RedMonds931]

OK. Thanks.

I'm not as hopeless as I may sound- just there was no mention of youth on the LibDem website so I wasn't sure what age restrictions may have applied.

I live in a very conservative area in which the LibDems barely exist so local opportunities= zilch.

[achinton]

That does make things a bit tricky, but there must be *something* locally, and it will only grow if people get stuck in. Anyway, a smaller local party can be quite nice: more opportunity to take on some responsibility of your own.

Anyway, good news: article 3.1 of the party's constitution is "Membership of the Party is open to all persons who agree with its fundamental values and

objectives without discrimination as to age, ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender or sexual

orientation."

[GregMovingImage]

Cameron wannabe!

[tau000]

Dont tell us this Nick, TELL THEM!

We really have an oppurtunity, but to the public at large they really cant hear us, This is very much preaching to the converted

You need to get the word out to the undecided public, specifically Disintrested Young voters, get them to see its a balance of % they agree with the lib dems balanced with the chances of getting in power (i.e. greater than the greens)

Im going to give the Lib Dems my support, who's with me?

[RedMonds931]

Everyone with any sense :P

[planetdmcc]

Count on me, But how? What is the rating at the moment? I might drop few leflets through the letter box and when people ask the same question, I might tell them that I lost my voice. Or shall I tell them that I have no idea? We are doing all that we can. We are at the moment learning. I am not a politition but can recommend where to find an asbestos management firm. I have worked in the asbestos managment section most of my life. As a matter of fact they have answers to all your questions. -End-

[Sweetlittlemystery]

the lib dems are the last credible party in Britain, Labour's a joke and anyone who votes conservative must want britain to crumble even more. In the current climate, it's time for the liberals to really step it up a gear if they want to run the country, which i really think they can do

[TheDefunktPistol]

i agree, but they'l loose out again in the next election unless they start basic campaigning now. Clegg could become PM if he developed their youth outreach policy and started communicating with the bottom voting age bracket as soon as possible. Its really annoying me though, that none of their current policies represent proper 'change'. They need to stop trying to jump on the Obama bandwagon, and start defining themselves.

[RedMonds931]

What is their "youth outreach policy"

And can youth become involved in the Lib Dems?

I'd really like to but I don't know how!

[h8bigbro]

search the Liberal Youth organisation

there really is NO age discrimination within the Liberal Democrat Party

[TheDefunktPistol]

I have no idea, neither do my friends. thats the bluddy problem! lol

[achinton]

Don't want to be mean, but... If you want to know more or get involved, you can, just show some initiative: Go to Google, type in "Lib Dems", go to the party's site (the first result), and click the "Get Involved" link.

If you're a student, there may well be a Lib Dem group set up as a society at your uni.

We'd love to have enthusiastic members, but if you can't even do a bit of googling to look into something you'd "really like to" do, you may be beyond help!

[BRIGSTOCK]

@Sweetlittlemystery One of the biggest problems Britain has is overpopulation. We despearately need to tighten up our immigration system. The Liberal Democrats are pro-immigration- some of them don't want ANY border controls at all! This is madness. It will mean more houses having to be built, more traffic, more pressure on the NHS and schools.

[PineappleOxide]

Clearer to me now than ever before that lower taxes AREN'T the solution. It's government spending that is.

[Jack2488]

Lib Dem's ... Our last hope.

[markspiro]

God this guy is a joke. He can't keep his head straight, can't read an autocue, and it just terrible.

[zomgomgomgz]

The Liberal Democrats seem like the only sane party.

[CanaleSilvio]

I'm voting LibDem! I have always been a Conservative, but I feel with the LD's we can change Britain for the better, YES WE CAN!

lol ;)

[Buddiehollie]

I have still voted liberal the past 2-3 years due to their policies that make sense and work. Yes we need to get Gordon Brown and his clowns out but the Tories wont make that much difference I think. The Tories were the ones supporting the ID card scheme at first for instance. I'm sticking with Liberal Dems at least I can sleep at night knowing I've voted for a caring for the people party with good ideas instead of a bunch of power mongrel monkees.

[BobTKaye]

I was tempted to vote for Conservatives so as to reduce the amount of corruption in govt. (I'm not saying that the tories aren't corrupt, just that it would reset the amount of corruption as they cleared out the pro-Labour corruption), but this video won me over. I just wish that people were allowed to vote for as many parties as they want rather than be coerced into voting for someone that they don't like just to get rid of someone that they hate.

[BobTKaye]

Until we reaplce the 'one person one vote' system with 'one person many votes' most people will feel unable to vote for the party that they want in power, which means that we're not in a genuine democracy.

[Mosley2]

WTF? One person one vote IS democracy. and we don NOT have a system that is one person one vote. Yes each one person gets one vote but thats not how they are counted.

I have NO idea what you were trying to say.

[BobTKaye]

Well if we were allowed to vote for all of the parties that we supported then there would be no feeling that a vote for someone who is not the most popular or the second most popular is a wasted vote. If I want Labour out and I have just one vote I'm more inclined to vote for whoever is almost as popular even though that party does not represent my views. If I want Labour out and I am able to provide my support to more than one party I am able 2 vote for all other parties that I support as well.

[BobTKaye]

That way the country would be led by the party that most people support rather than be led by the least hated party out of the most popular 2 parties.

[Mosley2]

So be able to Vote for (if they're are 5 parties to choose from) 4 choices as a kind of anti-Labour vote?

If so I like it. I was gonna vote Lib Dem in the last local election but there was no candidate :( it was eith Labour, Conservative or BNP so I vote Conservative AGAIN.

Lib Dem from here on out where possible. Bring on the Election.

[BobTKaye]

Yep. You got it. It's a bit similar to proportional representation, only it grants electoral power to the most popular party rather than have power divided between a dozen or so parties leading to a lack of bold initiatives and common unity.

By allowing voters to vote for more than one party it also avoids multiple parties with popular & very similar ideals losing to an unpopular party.

[Ilikenuman]

he means people dont bother voting for the party they want because they dont get a high rating. so they vote for their second choice instead. Eg some people like the lib dems but they dont think their vote will make a difference so they vote for labour instead.

its its their fualt for not voting to be honest.

still, democracy may not be perfect but its better than anything else we have

[FlavioGaltieri]

Love the antenna sticking out of your head Nick. You are truly wired. If you need a decent video next time I'm available.

[mbb05jb]

tim farron is a wicked mp

[lelvish1]

Good film. Happy anniversary Nick!