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Pledge. It's only furniture polish after all.

Poor old Clegg, he thinks he can argue his way out of anything. Am I the only one who's noticed that he's taken the art of answering his own preferred question (rather than the one he was actually asked) to a new level.
I hope he hangs on until the election, his presence guarantees Lib-Dem collapse.

Nick Clegg is using the Liberal Democrats to achieve his own place in history. It is why he so rapidly compromised on tuition fees, civil liberties, benefits and pushed his privatisation agenda. It is why he is so keen to make Lords reform happen. He wants to be remembered by history as a reformer. He will do anything to achieve these ambitions. He isn't interested in democracy or representing Liberal values. He doesn't care if he leaves tens of thousands of voters disenfranchised and turned-off politics. It is all about Nick. His actions have enabled the largest right-wing reforms of this country without a democratic mandate. He doesn't care if he drags the liberal democrat party down so long as he achieves his place in the history books.

He fraudulently misrepresented his party to achieve his own ambitions. Nick Clegg should face criminal charges.

'I pledge to vote against any increase in tuition fees and to pressure government to introduce a fairer alternative'. He's a liar , it's that simple. Talk of not winning the election is nonsense. They've been caught out. Attempts at muddying the waters says everything about them.

As Nick said this morning, mea culpa on the first part of the pledge, as a minority part of a coalition the Lib Dems were not able to keep that part as the Tories were not willing to agree to it (nor would Labour for that matter for all their crocodile tears now). Howerevr on the second part of the pledge, the Lib Dems have delivered so student starting this September will pay back up to £540 less than under the Labour scheme (also introduced after a manifesto pledge not to) and know that the loan is time limited to 30 years regardless of any career breaks or periods when the graduate is earning less than £21,000.
As for the left uniting around Labour, that is a pipe dream until the so-called party of the workers starts 'fessing up to all the mistakes it made in office where it oversaw the biggest rise in the gap between the rich & the poor since the war, introduced privatisation in to the NHS,and any number of other authoritarian right wing measures.

You don't need to remind people about that broken Libdem pledge. It's permanently etched on our minds.

The Libdems are finished.