That was more like not keeping a promise than outright lying. He apologised later and basically said that he hadn't realised it would be so unaffordable. And of course, he wasn't actually in power.
Oh come on. That’s semantics. Tories could argue the Brexit numbers weren’t a lie either, they just didn’t keep their promise. This is double standards of the worst kind.
Fewer toxic insults you say??
No - I'm agreeing with you that not keeping promises erodes democracy and the democratic process. But changing your mind when you find out the true cost of something is a bit different than telling blatant lies like Johnson / Trump.
Respectfully, you haven’t actually addressed any of the points in my post, and just repeated what you said again.See my post above on what happens in coalition Governments.
But I don't think it really compares to
Lying repeatedly about Parties during COVID (the independent report of which said 'The former prime minister had lied to MPs on an “unprecedented” scale).
Lying to the Queen about Parliament
Lying about the £350 Million to the NHS
Lying about no Border between Britain and NI
Lying about staying in the single market
And he had a long history prior
Lying about who was responsible for Hillsborough
Lying about extra marital affairs
Lying about various articles for which he was sacked
I could go on, and on, and on
The Lib Dems got quite a few things they wanted. It was either no power or share power as a junior partner and accept you can't have it all your own way.
Well yes, I'm being straight up with my abuse and was in response to an a derogatory post and an all nighter so got caught off guard.
The US binned its Fairness Doctorine back in 1987, Fox News, polarisation, echo chambers and here we are
I read about that last week - one of Reagan's biggest errors.
If I remember correctly… and it all seems a bit vague to be fair… Brown was hunkered down in number 10 - some sort of “nobody voted me in here and I’m not leaving “?? Cameron and Clegg were thrashing out a deal and the one policy Clegg (bizarrely) clung to was a vote on proportional representation - which clearly wouldn’t pass the house. I remember wondering why on earth he didn’t stand his ground on tuition fees because that was his key (only?) manifesto commitment that any of us rememberThat was the Lib Dems manifesto if they returned a majority Government which they didn't. As you rightly point out, some don't seem to understand that if you're the junior party in a coalition you can't actually implement your manifesto. All you can do is try and counter the extremes of the major parties manifesto and get some minor wins