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Not what we wanted to talk about, Nick

By Angela Harbutt
May 13th, 2009 at 7:20 pm | 10 Comments | Posted in UK Politics

party-election-broadcastI received an email  from Chris Rennard a short while ago notifying me (and every other Lib Dem) of the Party Election broadcast this evening that you can watch now on You Tube ..

 

What a wonderful opportunity this was for Nick to address the nation, respond to Norman Tebbit’s urge to voters to boycott the main parties at the upcoming elections, and demonstrate that he really is “clean up Clegg”.

What we got was “Conversations with Nick Clegg – Part 2”. The second part of a broadcast that should never have made it past part 1. What a waste.

There was one point of interest … Nick Clegg’s illustration of how a local Lib Dem Council took a radical route to tackling youth crime (oh the irony). They gave criminals a choice…. 

” You can either go to the police and get snarled up in this criminal justice system or you will come before a community justice panel  and you will face your victim, and your victim’s family, and members of the community and you will have to say sorry , and you will have to explain why you did what you did, and then together you are going to decide how you are going to make up for the harm you created.”

I wonder how many MPs would choose the community justice panel. I simply love the idea of them telling their local communitities WHY THEY DID what they did.

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