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by noir_lord
3336 days ago
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Also the tuition thing was if they won outright not formed a coalition, so they literally didn't go back on their word. They also blunted a lot of what the conservatives wanted to do and fell on their own sword doing it. Country before Party and I'm not traditionally a Liberal Democrat fan, frankly they deserve some admiration. People forget too easily what the world was like back then, a massive financial crash and the banks looking very shaky. |
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Hate to disagree here, but it wasn't the manifesto plan of free tuition (which is what they'd do in power) that was the problem, they also signed a pledge to vote against any increase in fees which half of them didn't follow through with (being part of government): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_for_Students_pledge
Agree with the rest of your comment though.