Nick Clegg is a fraud

[marmar]

from the Guardian UK:




The Liberal Democrats were drawing up plans to abandon Nick Clegg's flagship policy to scrap university tuition fees two months before the general election, secret party documents reveal.

As the Lib Dem leader faces a growing revolt after this week's violent protest against fee rises, internal documents show the party was drawing up proposals for coalition negotiations which contrasted sharply with Clegg's public pronouncements.

A month before Clegg pledged in April to scrap the "dead weight of debt", a secret team of key Lib Dems made clear that, in the event of a hung parliament, the party would not waste political capital defending its manifesto pledge to abolish university tuition fees within six years. In a document marked "confidential" and dated 16 March, the head of the secret pre-election coalition negotiating team, Danny Alexander, wrote: "On tuition fees we should seek agreement on part-time students and leave the rest. We will have clear yellow water with the other (parties) on raising the tuition fee cap, so let us not cause ourselves more headaches."

The document is likely to fuel criticism among Lib Dem backbenchers and in the National Union of Students that the party courted the university vote in the full knowledge that its pledge would have to be abandoned as the party sought to achieve a foot in government. Within a month of the secret document, Clegg recorded a YouTube video for the annual NUS conference on 13 April in which he pledged to abolish fees within six years. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/12/lib-dems-tuition-fees-clegg

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Lib Dems have always been whimps

[pa28]

2. To paraphrase yesterday's editorial in "The Independent"

'Clegg walked into his plush new office and immediately had a bonfire of the principles.'

Libdems were bothered enough by his decision to form a coalition. They must be in open mutiny by now.

[malaise]

5. He's up there with the worst

political whores. History will condemn him big time.

[Ramulux]

3. I think this is a prelude to what is happening here

Nick Clegg truly inspired many young and non-political people and got them to vote in many cases for the first time in the last election. All those people who put their trust in him just got fucking shit on and will most likely never trust a politician again. Clegg's career is over and he will literally take down the entire liberal democratic party with him. This is so extremely disappointing.

What is worse is that I see the same thing happening with Obama, obviously not as badly or quickly as whats happening to Clegg but sort of a drawn-out, extended version. With Obama continually making the wrong decision and continually alienating his base he is demoralizing many of the people who participated in the democratic process for the first time in 2008 and their disappointment with Obama could take them out of politics for quite a while.

[Starry Messenger]

4. I've been noticing that parallel too. n/t