Spot on Bob. Not sure I'd ever vote Lib Dem but anyone being honest enough to admit they are a non believer impresses the hell out of me.

I don't go to church. The vast majority of people don't. No one I know does. Why do politicians still have to pretend they are?

No Bob, I don't think he should have lied. I just prefer to vote for someone who knows their own limitations. Belief in a higher being and awarness of your own imperfection (or sin to use the Biblical term) is, for me personally, a part of that.

Nick Clegg saying he doesn't believe in God is hardly in the same league as Tony Blair saying that God told him to go to war in Iraq.

Religion is irrelevant unless you start telling everyone that it is influencing your politics one way or another, in my opinion.

Yes quite I find this ridiculous pretence of Gordon Brown to have "deep" religious convictions as shallow as the rest of his hastily constructed persona.Clegg is shaping up nicely as an ineffectual academic , like Brown....

I don't believe in God either. More to the point, I have it on God authority that he doesn't believe in Nick Clegg...

Paul, I have no idea why you would imagine that non-believers are unaware of their own imperfections. The two issues are unrelated.

newmania, I'm sure you are safe from being called an 'ineffectual academic'. Ineffectual, maybe, but with that grammar and spelling... no chance!

Paul,

Only Christians know that they aren't perfect?

The rest of us, non believers, presumably have no "awareness of our own imperfections"?

Really?

I agree. Better for him to be honest about his religious beliefs (or lack of them) rather than make a ridiculous pretence. It won't make me vote for him but I can respect his position

Bob you have a vocabulary at the level of a thirteen year old, so spelling is hardly an issue .Your sentences are charmingly simple, and the whole experience is like being grunted at from the side of linguistically challenged taxi driver's mouth. I enjoyed this invigorating voyage into the Grammatical unknown though.....

"Ineffectual maybe but with that Grammar and spelling no chance."

Is this "Use of irony " ? Where will we go to find a pure unspoilt simpleton now ?

Leaving aside what I assume is your educational inferiority complex .I only mentioned that Gordon Brown has made a huge and fraudulent play about his religious convictions ...... that's all.

Anyway, I `m off to eat a pig and get drunk . Practice while I `m gone.....

Oh dear, I've obviously touched a newmania nerve again. I'll try not to embarrass you (too much) by reprinting some of your hilarious and ungrammatical comments in other places on the web, but, just as an example for your admiring public, you gave us this classic piece of newmaniaspeak over at Cassilis' site...

Not sure I agree about the orrible Blair although Ialways prefferred him to brown for straightforward poltical reasons . Did something on this myself actually

Do you really think I would have an inferiority complex to an ignoramus who cannot spell and boasts of having an English Literature degree? Get serious.

I was thinking of starting a 'newmaniaspeak' weekly competition where people could vote for your most hilarious piece of language abuse. I do hope mommy and daddy didn't waste money on a private education for this poor return.

"No matter how many times people tell me Blair's Iraq adventure was inspired by his religious faith, I don't believe a word of it."

Why not? Blair obviously does, and the consequences of his self-delusion are all too painfully apparent.

i didnt hear the Interview or the context........but i wonder why the question was asked in the first place?

Bored now .
Bye

When John Smith, a long standing member of the Christian Socialist Movement, became Labour leader in the 1990s, many, many aspirant Labour politicians found God.

Excuse me for being cynical but "beliveing in God" does not neccesarily on its own make someone better politician. Although I'd like to see more Christians in politics and, Bob, you in church one Sunday. My preaching engagements are on my website, you would be welcome.

Well, if I belived, Preacher, I would, but I don't so I won't.

Although I would like to say thank Christ newmania's buggered off. He's like that other Tory twerp Oakeshott who used to hang around here in the comments box. They linger like a bad smell and it doesn't matter how much you take the piss out of them they keep coming back for more. Skin like a rhino and a brainto match.