{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Sgwrs Tei Bow","provider_url":"http:\/\/52.19.228.105\/cy","author_name":"Clarke Roberts","author_url":"http:\/\/52.19.228.105\/cy\/author\/clarke-roberts\/","title":"Nick Clegg - Setting the Record Straight | Bow Tie Talks","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kUU9qEu5Oi\"><a href=\"http:\/\/52.19.228.105\/cy\/2014\/09\/20\/nick-clegg-setting-the-record-straight\/\">Nick Clegg \u2013 Gosod y Cof yn Syth<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"http:\/\/52.19.228.105\/cy\/2014\/09\/20\/nick-clegg-setting-the-record-straight\/embed\/#?secret=kUU9qEu5Oi\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Nick Clegg &#8211; Setting the Record Straight&#8221; &#8212; Bow Tie Talks\" data-secret=\"kUU9qEu5Oi\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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David Cameron, on Friday morning, made a promise that may seem quite surreal. English votes for English laws, once and for all answering the West Lothian Question. The idea of not only Scots, but Irish, Welsh and English people voting for legislation that affects their respective nations alone is something I will certainly watch closely, and is bound to be a key policy at next year&#8217;s general election. So what has this got to do with setting the record straight on Nick Clegg? As many of you know, I have been a member of the Liberal Democrats since I could first vote back at the 2010 election and have sat back and watched the party in which I placed so much political faith, fall behind the likes of the far-right UKIP in the opinion polls; they have fallen victim to much scrutiny from the media and the UK electorate since they entered the coalition and most of it I feel, undeservedly so. As the British people and MPs begin to look ahead to May 2015, I want to explain the errors in understanding of the two biggest &#8216;downfalls&#8217; in Nick Clegg&#8217;s short time as a cabinet minister, and why I sadly won&#8217;t be voting Liberal Democrat again. The Con-Dem nation. 2010&#8217;s hung parliament was a first for many living in the UK. For the first time in 36 years, the British electorate had failed to elect a party in majority to lead the House of Commons. Brown&#8217;s Labour had failed on the grounds of the economic crisis he and Tony Blair had failed to predict; Cameron&#8217;s Conservative&#8217;s proposed austerity measures seemed too hard to swallow; Clegg&#8217;s Democrats lost more seats than in any election, despite an apparent surge in public support that followed the first ever televised leaders&#8217; debate. There were four options open to parliament, (there may have been five, but the idea of holding another election would have been pointlessly expensive and would have undoubtedly wielded the same result). A Labour minority government &#8211; this would have never had any support neither from the opposition or the electorate. Gordon Brown was already an unelected Prime Minister and as Brown had promised to resign from office, the prospect of a second unelected leader was inconceivable. Not only this, but the Idea of a party who came second behind the Conservatives in terms of parliamentary seats, seemingly being allowed to resume office was just not going to happen. Not to mention the practicalities; a minority Labour government would have faced heavy opposition from the greater-in-number Conservative Party, thus meaning passing any legislation based on Labour policy would have been near impossible. A Conservative minority government &#8211; A slightly more plausible outcome. However, had Cameron taken the Conservatives to Westminster [&hellip;]"}