Nick Clegg Promises Not To Raise Tuition Fees To £16,000

[MKR&*42]

There hasn't been any real suggestion they were going to be raised anyway, but I just find it absolutely hilarious he is making a promise like this after last time.


Nick Clegg has promised the government will not increase tuition fees to £16,000, but defended himself against the "polemic" attacks on the current £9,000 limit agreed by the coalition.

Last week the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, professor Andrew Hamilton, said the he should be able to charge more for tuition and pointed out that it costs £16,000 a year to educate a student at the university.

Lib Dem MPs hope that by 2015 the party will be forgiven for its decision to abandon its pre-election pledge to oppose any rise in tuition fees. But speaking to a group of teenagers and young adults in central London on Monday morning, the deputy prime minister was tackled on the issue.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/14/nick-clegg-tuiton-fees_n_4096076.html

I'm sure @Marketing (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=36885); will love this ;).

[AgnesIO]

Oh my god :L This is hilarious - I like how he has even responded to this question with a promise - his comment made it into my signature for years :L

http://labourlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/clegg-tuition-fees-pledge.jpg

[Ardemax]

Well as long as he promises

[Kardan]

Hahahahahahaha. You do make me laugh Clegg.

[-:Undertaker:-]

It's not really the lies from the politicians that annoy me anymore as it's just accepted - it's the fact that in this thread alone we have two people posting laughing/criticising Clegg for his outright lies, yet I know for a fact at the next election they'll go and out for vote Labour or Conservative.

What's the point in criticising one party for it's lies but then going to vote for another that lies just as badly? :P

[AgnesIO]

It's not really the lies from the politicians that annoy me anymore as it's just accepted - it's the fact that in this thread alone we have two people posting laughing/criticising Clegg for his outright lies, yet I know for a fact at the next election they'll go and out for vote Labour or Conservative.

What's the point in criticising one party for it's lies but then going to vote for another that lies just as badly? :P

This one is particularly amusing, given his biggest pledge in the last election was to vote against any rise in tuition fees - to then make the same pledge again is hilarious.

[lawrawrrr]

oh so this means that fees will definitely go to 16k then? that's how the lib dems work right?

[-:Undertaker:-]

This one is particularly amusing, given his biggest pledge in the last election was to vote against any rise in tuition fees - to then make the same pledge again is hilarious.

But they do that with everything.

They promise to control immigration and they do the opposite. They promise a referendum and no more powers to Brussels and they do the opposite. They promise to control spending and they do the opposite. They promise to slash quangos and they do the opposite etc etc etc.

The way it is made out (mostly by Labour and Conservative supporters) you'd think Clegg and tuition fee's was the only lie ever told in politics. Not saying it's not worth laughing at/exposing his dishonesty again, true, but let's have it applied to them all and taken into account at election time is all i'm sayin.

[AgnesIO]

But they do that with everything.

They promise to control immigration and they do the opposite. They promise a referendum and no more powers to Brussels and they do the opposite. They promise to control spending and they do the opposite. They promise to slash quangos and they do the opposite etc etc etc.

The way it is made out (mostly by Labour and Conservative supporters) you'd think Clegg and tuition fee's was the only lie ever told in politics. Not saying it's not worth laughing at/exposing his dishonesty again, true, but let's have it applied to them all and taken into account at election time is all i'm sayin.

In fairness, "controlling immigration" is evidently much more broad than "I pledge to vote against any rise in tuition fees" - one has a million different outcomes, the other can ONLY mean one thing - which he did the complete opposite on.

If this thread was about a blatant lie that REALLY affected me by Cameron, Miliband, Farage or any other politician that is worth mentioning, I would have the same stance. Unfortunately, if I am honest immigration figures don't really affect me all too much - I live in a rural area, where it is still a shock to see a school child that is not white British - and in fairness, it is how we deal with immigration that annoys me (ie. having school signs in English schools that have Arabic sub-text).

[dbgtz]

"Agreed by the current coalition". Doesn't mean a second coalition wouldn't. Looks like Nick Clegg is just massively twisting it. Earliest it will rise is 2016, hopefully 2017 so it doesn't affect me :P

[GommeInc]

It is ridiculous he's pledging towards this after the problems he caused at the last election. No one should vote the Liberal Democrats at the next General Election - they're useless, untrustworthy and a wasted vote. They're the 4th largest party for a reason.

[Chippiewill]

Yeah, it might be the same pledge. But he's so so sorry about breaking it last time. I say we trust him. Viva lib dem.

[FlyingJesus]

He can pledge free lions and topless bars on every corner for all the good it'll do him. I don't know (or even know OF) anyone who still supports Lib Dems

[peteyt]

It's not really the lies from the politicians that annoy me anymore as it's just accepted - it's the fact that in this thread alone we have two people posting laughing/criticising Clegg for his outright lies, yet I know for a fact at the next election they'll go and out for vote Labour or Conservative.

What's the point in criticising one party for it's lies but then going to vote for another that lies just as badly? :P

Then who do you vote for in the end if all lie?

[FlyingJesus]

UKIP because they've never lied about anything ever and have no scandals to date duhhhhhhhhh

[-:Undertaker:-]

Then who do you vote for in the end if all lie?

Well you don't keep voting for the same liars over and over again.

The only way that political parties and politicians can ever learn is by punishing them when they lie, and punishing them severely. The old Canadian Conservative Party is my favourite example of this: it abandoned all of it's principles and so all it's voters (rightly) abandoned it.


UKIP because they've never lied about anything ever and have no scandals to date duhhhhhhhhh

If a UKIP government was elected and went back on it's words and promises just like the present lot have then my members card would be binned and I wouldn't vote for them. As interested in politics as I am, I haven't got to vote.

[AgnesIO]

Well you don't keep voting for the same liars over and over again.

The only way that political parties and politicians can ever learn is by punishing them when they lie, and punishing them severely. The old Canadian Conservative Party is my favourite example of this: it abandoned all of it's principles and so all it's voters (rightly) abandoned it.



If a UKIP government was elected and went back on it's words and promises just like the present lot have then my members card would be binned and I wouldn't vote for them. As interested in politics as I am, I haven't got to vote.

No, but if you didn't I would void any opinions you had on the government and other parties.

Seen the latest Russell Brand video? What a ****.

[-:Undertaker:-]

No, but if you didn't I would void any opinions you had on the government and other parties.

Not at all, not voting is one of the best acts of freedom somebody can demonstrate. Peter Hitchens has made the point that everybody in the Soviet Union had a vote - yet it was meaningless just as it may be in a democracy when all the parties are the same.

The people to blame aren't those who don't vote for the liars, it's those who keep voting for them.


Seen the latest Russell Brand video? What a ****.

Agreed aha, somebody wrote in the Telegraph saying he sounds like a schoolboy who has swallowed a theasaurus. Spot on. Or another favourite that I saw in the comments this morning: that Brand is so open-minded that his brain fell out. :P