Liberal Democrats planned to drop manifesto pledge

[MrPinkPanther]

Nothing makes me sure that the smaller parties will be any different if i'm perfectly honest. UKIP, if they were to ever gain office could turn out to lie on every issue they stand for and could make me look like a fool - but at least i'd be genuinely suprised and taken aback when they did go back on their most important promises. I'd also then know not to vote for them ever again.

With the three main parties theres no excuse (especially the Conservatives and Labour). They all have an appalling track record of a number of issues with Europe being the one i've obviously looked into and in a way it serves us right, because until we start dropping tribalist & soundbyte politics then we are going to be taken for a ride time after time after time again by all three of these main political parties.

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

The thing is the Liberal Democrats don't really have a track record. They've generally stayed with their core policies throughout the past few decades and have kept to them more than a lot of smaller parties do to their manifestos. That said I don't think it's the Liberal Democrat party thats wrong but the leadership. I spoke to a Liberal Democrat MP (naming no names) a couple of weeks ago because my friend works with him and he seemed pretty angry at the tuition fee rises so obviously there are at least some people in there fighting the cause.

Edited by HotelUser (Forum Moderator): Accidental tripple post merged.

[ifuseekamy]

Politicians lie... welcome to the real world. Unfortunately the majority of people (mainly fellow students) will still maintain their rose tinted view of politics; that some politician can bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone will be happy and equal and have no financial issues.

[Chippiewill]

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

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This is a appalling, it's somewhat reasonable to go back on it after the election after realising that it couldn't actually be done but plainly lying to voters despite knowing that they would go against it anyway should be against the law and should carry serious penalties as a breach of trust.

[Conservative,]

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This is a appalling, it's somewhat reasonable to go back on it after the election after realising that it couldn't actually be done but plainly lying to voters despite knowing that they would go against it anyway should be against the law and should carry serious penalties as a breach of trust.

I agree, but to be fair to the Lib Dems, they didn't know there was going to be a coalition. And both the Tories & Lib Dems had to make sacrifices. I don't see why people can't understand that? Yes Nick Clegg said he'd vote against tuition fee rises, but he has had to sacrifice that like the Tories have had to sacrifice things. It's also complete **** voting against tuition fee rises because it's unreasonable and means that funding from the Government would have to rise for Unis, but then they'd have to take that away from eg; NHS, MoD or something.