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rob_dylan
21 May 14 23:12
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Reckon they are gonna lose a lot of their votes next election.  Never get any good press coverage.  All those years their pc of the vote never translated to a fair number of seats thanks to a lack of PR and... Jerrymandering?  They get their vote on PR and with virtually no press supporting it got nowhere near winning it.  They shouldnt have made the tuition fees pledge.  They admitted it and apologised.  All they got was criticised for confessing.  Fk me i wait all my life for an MP to admit to a mistake and apologise and he just got lampooned, no wonder they always lie. They have pushed for this 10,000 personal allowance which i think is a good thing.  Vince cable got pushed out of his role where he was gonna stop the bskyb thing going through, always seemed a stitch up job with the telegraph that.  Reckon they have been unfairly treated and it will hurt them for many many years.  I may yet vote for them.

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Foinavon
When: 21 May 14 23:17
Quite so Rob, I still agree with Nick (although might get lynched for saying so).
By:
Mighty Whites 2008
When: 21 May 14 23:24
Can't stand Clegg. Think the stick the liberals have got has gone too far. The best policies of this government have been the tax threshold and the introduction of the pupil premium. Two policies that have helped the poorest in society far more than anything labour did in 13 years.
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rob_dylan
When: 21 May 14 23:29
I put it down largely to having no papers supporting them.  The tory rags just blame them for everything as a coverup for tory failings.  The mirror is labour and i think the guardian will, sooner or later, inevitably, change allegiance back to labour.  The guardian just cant abide the fact that the party they supported jumped into bed with the tories.  And the beeb is neutral.  But what could they do?  Make a coalition with labour, would seem unfair if the party with the most seats isnt in govt.  and if we had a hung parliament dont they just have more elections, how long can that go on.  Or a tory minority govt so they cant get anything through?  No they had to go in a coalition.
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Foinavon
When: 21 May 14 23:39
Brown and his cronies had to go. It was a logical decision.
By:
Mikael D'Haguenet
When: 22 May 14 09:09
rob_dylan 21 May 14 23:12 
Reckon they are gonna lose a lot of their votes next election.


Was inevitable once they entered into a coalition with the Tories. I hope UKIP beat 'em !
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Ramruma
When: 22 May 14 09:29
Tuition fees was the big one -- it was not just buried on page 94 of the manifesto, it was the main plank of their campaign. Then they ditched it in the coalition talks.

And finally Nick Clegg went on telly and said, almost in as many words, that you can never trust the Lib Dems because they will always be the junior partner in coalitions.
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DStyle
When: 22 May 14 10:22
a third party which has no chance of being elected can still shape policy through their stance on key issues, causing the main parties to adapt their own manifestos to stop themselves from losing votes.

a vote for a third party can also be a protest.

which is precisely what's happening with UKIP.

to get a sniff of power and then renege on some of the key manifesto items means you betray a very large number of people who voted for you. so yes, the criticism is entirely deserved.

Clegg is immensely unconvincing as well.
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