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Good morning, welco-e to t(e Sufd!y Politics. Senior | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Good morning, welco-e to t(e Sufd!y Politics. Se.iop Di"eral | :00:42. | :00:42. | |
Good morning, welco-e to t(e Sufd!y Politics. Senior Liberal Democrats | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
say the public has lost pr5st if Nick legg. | :00:45. | :00:44. | |
say the public has lost pr5st if Nick Clegg. They | :00:45. | :00:45. | |
say the public has lost pr5st if Nick legg. hey call | :00:46. | :00:45. | |
say the public has lost pr5st if Nick Clegg. They call for | :00:46. | :00:45. | |
say the public has lost pr5st if Nick legg. hey call for (im | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
say the public has lost pr5st if Nick Clegg. They call for him to | :00:47. | :00:46. | |
say the public has lost pr5st if Nick legg. hey call for (im tg 'o | :00:47. | :00:46. | |
Nick Clegg. They call for him to go after the local | :00:47. | :00:46. | |
Nick Clegg. They call for him to go after the docal edection meltdown | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
after the local edection meltdown And before the | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
after the local edection meltdown And befope t(e licely Duro0a | :00:53. | :00:52. | |
after the local edection meltdown And before the likely Europa rove | :00:53. | :00:52. | |
after the local edection meltdown And befope t(e licely Duro0a rove a | :00:53. | :00:52. | |
And before the likely Europa rove a catastrophe tonight. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
And before the likely Europa rove a catastrophe tonig`t L`bgur | :00:55. | :00:54. | |
And before the likely Europa rove a catastrophe tonight. Labour and | :00:55. | :00:54. | |
catastrophe tonig`t. L`bgur and Tories strug'led to | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
catastrophe tonig`t. L`bgur and Tories struggled to cope | :00:57. | :00:57. | |
catastrophe tonig`t. L`bgur and Tories strug'led to cope with | :00:58. | :00:57. | |
catastrophe tonig`t. L`bgur and Tories struggled to cope with the | :00:58. | :00:57. | |
UKI@ insurge.cy Tories struggled to cope with the | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
UKIP insurgency as Nigel Farage UKI@ insurge.cy as Nigdl F!rage | :00:59. | :00:59. | |
hosts hiq UKI@ insurge.cy as Nigdl F!rage | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
hosts his success and declares UKI@ insurge.cy as Nigdl F!rage | :01:01. | :01:00. | |
hosts his succeqs a.d decl!res phe hosts his success and declares the | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
UKIP Fox is hosts his success and declares the | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
UKIP ox is in hosts his success and declares the | :01:04. | :01:03. | |
UKI@ ox is in the hosts his success and declares the | :01:04. | :01:03. | |
UKIP ox is in the estman3ter In the South West: Labour is shaken | :01:04. | :01:04. | |
henhouse. In the South West: Labour is shaken | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
by UKIP. hall spread, thd Di"er`l Democrat3 | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
disappeared, UKIP failed to hall spread, thd Di"er`l Democrat3 | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
disappeaped, UKIP f!ildd to show. More !nalysi3 in bu3t | :01:21. | :01:21. | |
disappeaped, UKIP f!ildd to show. More analysis in just over half an | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
hour. Cooped up in the Sunday Politics | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
henhouse, our own boot should -- bunch of headless chickens. Nick | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
Watt, Helen Lewis, Janan Ganesh. The Liberal Democrats lost over 300 | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
councillors on Thursday, on top of the losses in previous years, the | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
local government base has been whittled away in many parts of the | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
country. Members of the European Parliament will face a similar | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
comment when the results are announced tonight. A small but | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
growing chorus of Liberal Democrats have called on Nick Clegg to go | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
This is what the candidate in West Dorset had to say. | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
People know that locally we worked incredibly hard on their councils | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
and as their MPs, but Nick Clegg is perceived to have not been | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
trustworthy in leadership. Do you trust him? He has lacked bone on | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
significant issues that are the core values of our party. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
This is how the party president responded. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
At this time, it would be foolish for us as a party to turn in on | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
ourselves. What has separated us from the Conservatives is, while | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
they have been like cats in a sack, we have stood united, and that is | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
what we will continue to do. The major reason why is because we | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
consented to the coalition, unlike the Conservatives. We had a vote, | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
and a full conference. Is there a growing question over | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
Nick Clegg's leadership? Different people have different views. My own | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
view is I need to consult my own activists and members before coming | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
to a conclusion. I am looking at holding a meeting for us to discuss | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
the issue. I have been told by some people they do not think a meeting | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
is required, they think he should stay, and other people have decided | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
he should go. As a responsible Democrat, I should consult the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
members here before coming to my conclusions. What is your view at | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
the moment? I have got to listen to my members. But you must have some | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
kind of you. Because I have an open mind, I do not think he must stay, I | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
am willing to say I have not made my mind up. From a news point of view, | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
that is my official position. I can assure you there is not much news in | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
that! I said earlier I am not going to say he must go must stay, I am | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
consulting my members. But you must have some kind of view of your own | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
before you have listened to your members. There are people who are | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
wrongfully sanctioned and end up using food banks, I am upset about | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
that, because we should not allow... I do not mind having a | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
sanctioning system, that I get constituents who are put in this | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
position, we should not accept that. I rebel on the issue of a referendum | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
on membership of the EU. I am also concerned about the way the rules | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
have been changed in terms of how parents are treated in their ability | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
to take children to funerals out of school time. There are questions | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
about the leader's responsible T for those policies. Nick Clegg has made | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
it clear he is a staunch pro-European, he wants the Liberal | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Democrats to be in, he does not want a referendum, if you lose a chunk of | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
your MEPs tonight, what does that say about how in June you are with | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
written public opinion? There are issues with how you publish your | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
policies. I do not agree 100% with what the government is doing or with | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
what Nick Clegg says. I do think we should stay within the EU, because | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
the alternative means we have less control over our borders. There is a | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
presentational issue, because what UKIP want, to leave the EU, is worse | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
in terms of control of borders, which is their main reason for | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
wanting to leave, which is strange. There are debate issues, but I have | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
got personal concerns, I do worry about the impact on my constituents | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
when they face wrongful sanctions. You have said that. A fellow Liberal | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Democrat MP has compared Nick Clegg to a general at the Somme, causing | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
carnage amongst the troops. I am more interested in the policy | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
issues, are we doing the right things? I do think the coalition was | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
essential, we had to rescue the country from financial problems. My | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
own view on the issue of student finance, we did the right thing in | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
accordance with the pledge, which was to get a better system, more | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
students are going to university, and more from disadvantaged | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
backgrounds. But there are issues. But Nick Clegg survive as leader | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
through till the next election? It depends what odds you will give me! | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
If you are not going to give me is, I am not going to get! If you listen | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
to John hemming, he has got nothing to worry about. He does have | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
something to worry about, they lost 300 seats, on the uniform swing, you | :07:04. | :07:13. | |
would see people like Vince cable and Simon Hughes lose their seats. | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
But nobody wants to be the one to we'll be nice, they would rather | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
wait until after the next election, and then rebuild the party. Yes | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
there is no chance of him walking away. Somebody like Tim Farron or | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Vince Cable, whoever the successor is, though have to close the dagger | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
ten months before an election, do they want that spectacle? If I were | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
Nick Clegg, I would walk away, it is reasonably obvious that the | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
left-wing voters who defect had towards the Labour Party in 2010 | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
will not return while he is leader. And anything he was going to achieve | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
historically, the already has done. Unlike David Miliband, sorry, Ed | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
Miliband or David Cameron, he has transformed the identity of the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
party, they are in government. Had it not been for him, they would have | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
continued to be the main protest party, rather than a party of | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
government. So he has got to take it all the way through until the | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
election. If he left now, he would look like he was a tenant in the | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
conservative house. What we are seeing is an operation to | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
destabilise Nick Clegg, but it is a Liberal Democrat one, so it is | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
chaotic. There are people who have never really been reconciled to the | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
coalition and to Nick Clegg, they are pushing for this. What is Nick | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
Clegg going to do, and Tim Farron? -- what is Vince Cable going to do? | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Vince Cable is in China, on a business trip. It is like John | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
Major's toothache in 1990. What is Tim Farron doing? He is behind Nick | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Clegg, because he knows that his best chances of being leader are as | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
the Westland candidate, the person who picks up the mess in a year | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
Vince Cable's only opportunity is on this side of the election. But you | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
say they are not a party of government, but what looks more | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
likely is overall the -- is no overall control. You might find a | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
common mission looking appealing. They could still hold the balance of | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
power. A lot of people in the Labour Party might say, let's just have a | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
minority government. 30 odds and sods who will not turn up to vote. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
If they want to be up until 3am every morning, be like that! When | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
you were in short trousers, it was like that every night, it was great | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
fun! The Liberal Democrats will not provide confidence to a minority | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
government, they will pull the plug and behave ruthlessly. Does Nick leg | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
lead the Liberal Democrats into the next election? Yes. Yes. Yes. I am | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
sorry, Nick Clegg, you are finished! We will speak to Paddy | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Ashdown in the second part of the show to speak about the Liberal | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Democrats. The UKIP insurgency could not deliver the promised earthquake, | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
but it produced enough shock waves to discombobulated the established | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
parties. They are struggling to work out how to deal with them. We | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
watched it all unfold. Behind the scenes of any election | :10:39. | :10:53. | |
night is intensely busy. Those in charge of party strategy and | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
logistics want their people focused, working with purpose and rehearsed | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
to make sure their spin on the results is what viewers remember and | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
take on board. A bit of a buzz of activity inside the BBC's studio, | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
kept and primed for the results. What this does not show due is the | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
exterior doubles up for hospital dramas like Holby City, there are | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
doorways that are mock-ups of accident and emergency, but the | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
electorate will discover which of the parties they have put into | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
intensive care, which ones are coming out of recovery and which | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
ones are in rude health. We joined David Dimbleby. Good evening, | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
welcome to the BBC's new election centre. When three big beasts become | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
for on the political field, things have changed. Eric Pickles says we | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
will be seen off next year, we will see you at Westminster! This party | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
is going to break through next year, and you never know, we might even | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
hold the balance of power. Old messages that gave voters in excuses | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
to go elsewhere on the ballot paper exposed the older players to | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
questions from within their ranks. In the hen house of the House of | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Commons, the fox that wants to get in has ruffled feathers. The reason | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
they have had amazing success, a rapid rise, partly what Chuka Umunna | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
says about being a repository, but they have also managed to sound like | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
human beings, and that his Nigel Farage's eight victory. For some | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
conservatives, a pact was the best form of defence. It would be | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
preferable if all members of UKIP and voters became Tories overnight. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
That seems to be an ambitious proposition. Therefore, we need to | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
do something that welcomes them on board in a slightly different way. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
Labour had successes, but nobody but they're wizards of Spain was | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
completely buying a big success story. Gaffes behind the scenes and | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
strategic errors were levelled at those who have managed the campaign. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
They have played a clever game, you shuffle bedecked around, and if UKIP | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
does quite well but not well enough, that helps Labour get in. That kind | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
of mindset will not win the general election, and we saw that in the tap | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
ticks and strategy, and that is why, on our leaflets for the European | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
elections, we chose deliberately not to attack UKIP, that was a bad | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
error. Not so, so somebody who has been in that spotlight. If you look | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
at the electoral maths, UKIP will still be aiming at the Tories in a | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
general election. They are the second party in Rotherham, Labour | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
will always hold what the room, it is safe, there is no point being | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
second in a safe seat. UKIP have taken Castle Point, a Tory seat they | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
will target. The question for the next election, can they make a | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
challenge? The Tories will be under the gun from UKIP. The substance of | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
these results is UKIP not in government, they do not have any | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
MPs, they do not run a single Council, at dismissing them ceased | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
to be an option. The question is, who will they heard most and how do | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
you smoke the keeper's threat? Joining me now, day about and | :14:18. | :14:39. | |
Patrick O'Flynn. Do you agree not enough was done for the elections? | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
No, we have very good results around Hammersmith and Fulham, Croydon | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Redbridge, and we picked off council wards in Haringey meaning that Lynne | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
Featherstone and Simon Hughes worked on. The Ashcroft polling shows that | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
in key marginals, we are well ahead and on course to win in 2015. I will | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
be putting | :15:08. | :15:12. |