Ed Davey on Nick Clegg's first conference speech as leader

The Liberal Democrats' Shadow Foreign Secretary, Edward Davey MP, gives his response to Nick Clegg's first leader's speech to the party's UK-wide conference. He also looks back at conference looks ahead to May's local elections.

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[lelvish1]

Utter rubbish! Ashdown was the best PM we never had!! How can u say he never did anything for this country- well, he would have done had the British electorate given him a chance! Duh! He also saved Bosnia and Herzogovina! He had passion and charisma (unlike Major) and honesty and sincerity (unlike Blair!) ... such a shame he never got a chance!

[yeomanpip]

Excellent!

Have just read Nick Cleggs speech, and 'wow!' was my thought.

But I can't help feeling there is always going to be a struggle.

Its not only the media themselves but too many media personalities ready to make 'jokes' about the Lib Dems!

If only they'd read the speech, they would see that there is only one way to go.

[thepinktent]

he's kindy cute in a bearish way..

[bobisterbezreal]

I completely agree. I saw Paddy Ashdown speak recently and he was genuinely inspiring, and showed remarkable insight into global and domestic affairs. re: "a cushy job" Paddy recently accepted an offer to try and do for Afghanistan what he did for Bosnia and Herzegovina- only Karzai's fear of Paddy's proposed crackdown on corruption stopped him from taking on one of the most difficult and dangerous jobs he wouuld have taken on since he was a royal marine. You clearly know nothing about him.

[RolandRatz]

Paddy Ashdown is a complete political has been - he never did anything for this country - he's got a pretty cushty job now though.

[ukburger]

Agrred and sorry. Peace to you too.

[Britlandish]

i am a vegetarian and thus agree with you on the animal cruelty anyway dude enough of the fighting back to the original point the key is to get labour out of government and to be quite honest i don't give a monkeys what colour party get in as long as its not red - peace

[ukburger]

I have unblocked you

[ukburger]

No, you can't kill small aniamls with them. That is aninal crulty and illegal too. Yes, you can shoot targets with them, but I shot coke cans and paper targets with them.

[ukburger]

Yes, it is a sport, I have videos about the sport and what to do with them, there are places in the UK that you can take your replica to to battle fields. When I say battle fiels, I don't mean real injuries, you get FULL protective clothing agaist the airsoft pellets and it is for fun really nothing too seriours.

[Britlandish]

You own an arsenal of airsoft guns - fair enough each to their own i say - i do however get slightly worried about my health and the publics when a man owning an arsenal of airsoft guns, which he films on a regular basis spread out across his bed, starts sending me messages saying i should kill myself - they are legal good point i never knew that lol but what do you do with them - kill small animals? shoot targets? stand in the mirror with them? who knows, who cares.