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UPDATE 16/04/2011 Well well well...
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Liberal Cynic - A sometime activist and definite cynic
Liberal Cynic - A sometime activist and definite cynic
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Your attitude on student fees is puzzling. Just because the president of the NUS backs your policy (until the election and the 'one' sided coalition deal) he must be a Labour supporter. Sadly many students believed you and like many are stunned by your parties conversion to aggressive free market policies which ignore the startling inequalities in education in our country. Research shows that 80% of your life chances can be predicted from the school and university you attend. These startling illiberal changes worsen the situation by confronting students with ever greater debt and increasing the gap between Oxbridge, the Red bricks and the rest. Ema has been scrapped, not replaced by a better targeted allowance and overall the changes made by George Osbourne have hurt poorer families in real terms the most. Real Liberals would want to lift most peoples life chances, something you obviously have no interest in. The pupil premium has also turned out to be a joke, a mere transfer of funds within a department at the same time whilst provision and funding for Sixth Formers (where I know from experience small/reasonable class sizes are vital, why do you think the rich pay for small class sizes at private schools?) is being cut. Your allies within the government are people like Eric Pickles, Grant Shaps. Jeremy Hunt, a role call of nasty right wingers (where is your blog post on News International and Sky?) but yet you are silent about their activities. I teach politics A level and at the moment it is very hard to explain that coalitions normally involve more compromise than this, that small parties extract heavy prices from bigger parties, when your party in government is simply giving way on everything apart from mild constitutional reform (what are your chances of winning the AV referendum, rather slim I suspect with the entire right wing press against you?) Yesterday's by election should act as a warning to you, your voters for the most part did not vote for hardline Tory policies, which is what they are now getting with your acquiescence. Most are going to vote Labour, particularly in those constituencies that are in seats where the too fast cuts are going to hurt the most. Anyway look back at your blog posts over the years and think, are you not being hypocritical and unthinking in your support of your parties right-wing direction (along which most by now ex-Liberal Democrat voters will not follow).
Must be tired, as I have you in several parties, rather than a party!
A lesson in humility, admit your mistakes...
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