Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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NICK Clegg who was the toast of the election TV debates this time last year is now finding it difficult to find anyone who agrees with him - even in his own party.His downfall is spectacular but predictable. He took a left-of-centre party into a Coalition set on hiking VAT and tuition fees.
The polls are showing that the Lib Dems are heading for a mauling in the local elections on May 5 and to make things worse the Lib Dems have ditched Nick Clegg from campaign literature as his broken vows have made him so "toxic" with voters.
Even party activists in the Deputy PM's home city of Sheffield are handing out election leaflets that do not feature a picture of him and it emerged that the Lib Dem leader in Liverpool, Warren Bradley, has called for Mr Clegg to pull out of the Coalition before the party "disappears into the annals of history".
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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they seem to be breaking up into factions now.
chris huhne and simon hughes seem to be fighting over who will take over the role of leader.
the problem is that they cannot ditch nick clegg without breaking up the coalition.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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What with Norman Lamb threatening to resign on TV sunday and the onslaught from Libdem Leader Warren Bradley of Liverpool..its all looking very jittery for Nick. The problem is his credibility is shot to pieces, every time he opens his gob now no one listens other than to pick faults in what he's saying.
He's right up there with Uncle Vince.
To go back to Tuition Fees for the moment. Look whats happened there with the latest evolution. Almost every dogsbody of a university is now charging the full whack of £9000. It was wholly inevitable that they would do this but the politicians didnt see it coming. This top figure was supposed to be for the elite universities only but now not so...anything with a wall and a roof is charging it. Clearly a scheme dreamed up with no nous at all, but Nick signed himself over to it after promising the opposite..so his position on this one topic, is continually getting further away from his dreams of free universities for all and as a consequence his credibility gap is widening and getting worse by the day...growing like a virus.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
PAULB/HOWARD
You may recall sometime ago i said this cobbled together govt wouldn't go the full term, i still believe that.
Prior to the sell out by nick clegg and his cronies nick came across as an alternative to labour/tory, and won votes on that issue alone(the protest vote) he was saying the right things, doing the right things.
but then the general election got in the way, lol and nick decided to go power crazy and sod his party/beliefs/electorate.
now its all in fighting within the lib dem party, and the tories in this cobbled together you will note are sitting back and rubbing there hands in the hope of a lib dem collapse, and there gain, but people are so reluctant to vote tory thats very very doubtful.
where the tories should be romping ahead sat the polls there not, and i still say the lib dems will bring down this cobbled together govt.
simon hughes etc are just waiting for the right moment
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