Why did I BOTHER with the Lib Dems?

[larus]

I'm sure there have been more hypocritical posts on this board but I can't think of any.

In what way is my post hypocritical? Please explain.

 

[KNC]

FFS!!!!
Didn't anyone expect anything different to the current policies being dished out?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

He's not advising on tax affairs. He's advising on how to run an organisation efficiently. He's proved this by taking inefficient companies, and by improving the operation and making them profitable. His remit was not to look at the services provided, but the operation of the departments and the potentail savings.

Again, your blinkered views are clear to see.

A tax exile is advising the government on how British taxes could be better spent. I think this is wrong, and a bit rich.

 

[Questions]

Why to what?

Well, I'm not going to take a gap year and defer my entry until 2012 if it's likely to cost me another £10,000 at least am I.

Where is the question mark at the end of your sentence boy ?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Anyway, I've spent way too much on the Chat today. So I'm off to the newsagents to get a huge bag of crisps and watch Gordon Ramsey.

 

[Giraffe]

Libdems have always been and will always be a waste of time

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Since he became a minister, I've had three conversations with Norman Baker. During the first one, he said that he didn't support Tory policies. The second and third had him saying that he can't do much, because Treasury ministers are deciding everything.

How long before Lib Dem disenchantment brings the coalition down?

 

[fleet]

Hard to believe that politicians sell out just to get a taste of power.... not

 

[Foolg]

Where is the question mark at the end of your sentence boy ?

Rhetorical question

 

[KneeOn]

Cable i think would be better suited as a back bencher. Clegg isn't a bad right wing man. He's nieve.

Cable knows what has to happen for him to not have the whip withdrawn as part of the Coalition Agreement. Blair was wrong for reviewing Uni Funding and setting up tution fee's.

the last 15 years have been awful. Labour have done good things bur a lot of bad things and we need to step to the left rather than to the right.

 

[BLOCK F]

Why to what?

Well, I'm not going to take a gap year and defer my entry until 2012 if it's likely to cost me another £10,000 at least am I.

I am really asking 1.) why you might choose not to go to uni now.
2.)Why do the new proposals necessarily drive the lower classes out of higher education?After all, the graduate gets the debt,not the parents and payback time doesn't start until earnings hit £21,000.
By the way,I am not for a minute suggesting the new proposals are good news,but it wouldn't have been any better under the Labour Party....after all,they originally commissioned the Browne Report.
P.S.My eldest boy starts uni in Sept.2011,so none of us are overjoyed!

 

[Questions]

Rhetorical question

Then I would like to see a bracketed question mark or percontation point (if you prefer) for all rhetorical questions.


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[The Modfather]

BBC News - Cable accepts unlimited tuition fees plan

f***ing gutless tossers!

As it happens I believe this is shockingly crap decision, and an excellent way to help the country move towards a society of haves and have-nots. But actually it's not the fact that the government are making this decision, it's the fact that the Liberals said they would NEVER accept unlimited tuition fees and are now doing yet another about turn.

In fact, what is the point of the lib dems? What is their legacy of time in power? They're just letting the Tories do whatever they want and then bickering about it amongst each other behind closed doors.

Spineless. I won't be voting for them all the while Clegg and Cable are anywhere near their top jobs.

The same reason everyone votes Lib Dems, as a protest vote against the goverment. No one expected them to govern, least of all with the Tories.

Lib Dems voters can then sit back and smugly say 'I didn't vote for these policies'. Unfortunately, this time it has backfired

The Lib Dems are now finished as a party, as they are no more than a faction of the Conservative party.

It is back to two party politics, and next time around Lib Dem voters will need to have to find the balls to vote Labour or Tory

 

[Silent Bob]

Libdems have always been and will always be a waste of time

I'm not sure your leader agrees, he's finding them very useful.

 

[Don Quixote]

Great cartoon from the Guardian today

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Lord B, you talk a good game and you obviously care. Have you thought about running for election (other than the Seagulls Party)?

 

[RexCathedra]

Little-known fact -- Nick Clegg's ego can be seen from the International Space Station.

 

[ROKERITE]

Great cartoon from the Guardian today

I see nothing wrong in someone who doesn't pay UK Tax advising on government spending. It could be argued he is a disinterested party and therefore able to give an objective view. Ofcourse, the sneering Guardian and its silver spoon in the mouth socialist readers won't see it that way.

 

[clapham_gull]

When I was doing my A Levels, I remember everyone banging on about how bad it was that in this country that (compared to other European nations) most our young people didn't continue their education beyond 16.

Only in this country, would we start to complain that many more are doing so.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Lord B, you talk a good game and you obviously care. Have you thought about running for election (other than the Seagulls Party)?

As I think I've already mentioned on NSC ... a few weeks ago I was asked if I would stand at the next Lewes District Council elections - for the Conservatives.



God knows why. They must be REALLY desperate.