Nick Clegg was warned to get out of his pact with the Conservatives before it was too late as his partnership with David Cameron was compared to the troubled marriage of Cheryl and Ashley Cole.

The warning for the deputy prime minister came from a Liberal Democrat voter in a question-and-answer session in Bristol.

Members of the invited 300-strong audience accused Clegg of failing to secure the key Liberal Democrat goal of electoral reform, supporting “brutal” social policies, ignoring tax avoiders and overseeing “dangerous” cuts in the NHS.

One participant, lawyer Shazada Hayat, likened Clegg’s alliance with the prime minister to the celebrity marriage between Cheryl and Ashley Cole, which ended in acrimonious divorce after the footballer’s infidelity.

Hayat told him: “How long is this marriage going to last? Only you know. But what I would like to ask is, is this marriage going to end amicably, or is it going to be like Cheryl Cole, you will be screaming that ‘I’ve been betrayed, betrayed, betrayed’.”

Hayat said many Liberal Democrat voters were dismayed by the coalition government’s cuts, which were adversely affecting students and older people.

“I’d just like to say to you Nick, just like Cheryl Cole was advised – get out while you can, before it is too late,” he added.

Clegg defended the Liberal Democrats’ record in government, claiming the party was pushing for fairer policies, for example, the restoration of the earnings link for state pensions from next April.

“Much as your [question] was elegant and humorous, please do not just glibly pick up whatever a headline says,” he said.

“We have taken decisions already which have sought to make sure that we are doing difficult things as fairly as possible.”

The event is the latest in a series of public meetings which Clegg is holding around Britain.

Well one story that made me furious yesterday.

Women goes to the toilet and commits sex act on a cenotaph in Blackpool. I wonder what sort of scum bag she really is. I thought about this long and hard and there are things you don’t do in life.i am not religious but you treat churches and other places of worship with respect and monuments set up to respect our war dead you do the same.I was honoured to lay a wreath for the Liberal democrats at the Cenotaph in swinton and for someone to do what she did was an utter disgrace.

Labour hints Charles Kennedy to defect from Liberal Democrats

Charles Kennedy at the Libl Dem’s annual conference in 2006. He has dismissed rumours of a defection to Labour as ‘the silliest of silly season stories’. Photograph: PA

Labour stepped up its attack on the Liberal Democrat wing of David Cameron’s coalition government by hinting Charles Kennedy, the former Lib Dem leader, has been in talks to defect to Labour and take several of his party colleagues with him.

 Silly season ? you can never sat never..

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Can any one tell me in one sentence how they see the Rich and upper middle classes have taken their share of the burden on the Tory/Dem cuts?Serious question it’s just when i hear Pinky and Perky say we are in this together  it makes my blood boil.