Last night's BBC documentary Five Days That Changed Britain, about the negotiations which produced the Con Dem coalition proved to be quite revealing.
Many of us have been rightly saying that the Lib Dems have ditched their principles for power, but the documentary proved that they were not even honest with the voters before the election.
Nick Clegg admitted that he changed his mind about the timing of spending cuts before the election, even though he was telling voters that to bring in cuts now would be "economic masochism" (More on this story in the Guardian)
I hope this latest revelation will cause the exodus of even more Lib Dem members. They have been betrayed by their leader, and will pay dearly in the next election.
Who can trust a word the Lib Dems say in the future after this betrayal?
2 comments:
But Andrew, the Labour leadership were prepared to get into bed with the very Lib Dems you castigate.
You can't accuse the LibDems of acquiring power at any cost without also looking at the terrible record the New (or is it Next?) Labour Party - a Party prepared to ditch its founding principle of socialism in order to get elected. Not to mention Iraq, tuition fees, academies, PFI etc etc...
What the Lib Dems have signed up to differs vastly from what they said before the election.
Free Schools, root and branch NHS forms, VAT rises, immediate cuts are not what they stood for in the election, and people will feel betrayed. The Lib Dems appear to have got very little out of the coalition except an AV referendum.
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