Nick Clegg made a promise in his manifesto saying he would scrap tuition fees. Once into government though he voted with the Tories to triple tuition fees to £9,000.
Nick Clegg campaigned against what he called a "Tory VAT Bombshell" during the election. But he voted with the Tories to raise the VAT to 20%.
Nick Clegg says that"thanks to the Liberal Democrats, the government has been helping people get through these difficult times with measures to make life fairer and easier". With Liberal Democrats in government, things are getting harder, wages are down £1,500 an average since the election.
Nick Clegg said "Difficult decisions are going to have to be made in public spending, but Sure Start is one of the best things the last government has done and I want all these centres to stay open". Again the Liberal Democrats backed the Tories to make cuts to Sure Start and as a result over 150 centres have closed.
In Nick Cleggs manifesto he promised to put 3000 more police on the beat. Again, since they got into government they have backed the Tory plans to cut 15,000 police.
The Liberal Democrats have said that special advisers "are political jobs, and should, therefore, be funded by political parties". Nick Clegg alone has sixteen special advisers, paid for at the hard working tax taxpayers' expense.
This shows how the Liberal Democrats cant be trusted at a national level. They cant be trusted at a local level either.
Diana Smith, Councillor for Watling voted with the Tory led council in favour of their last budget. This budget included a rise in council tax just short of 2% at the same time as a pay freeze to council workers, who have not had any pay rise in 5 years. (remember Nick Clegg saying the Lib-Dems have helped people through difficult times?)
It looks like the Lib-Dems will go against there promise, principle and there own party just to get a bit of power. The Lib-Dems and the Tories are very much both the same. A vote for the Liberal Democrats in 2010 was the same as a vote for the Tories.
Don't be fooled by the lies again.
Oh dear, dear, dear!
ReplyDeleteGlass houses and throwing stones comes to mind, along with Labour's inability to recognise facts, preferring instead to put their own spin on matters, creating one distortion of the truth after another.
FACT: Tories under Thatcher in 1982 broke the link between State pension and national average earnings (which historically rose by about 2% p.a. more than the RPI). Labour kicked up merry stink about it, promising faithfully to restore the link once re-elected. Year on year between 1982 and 1997 the purchasing power of the State pension was steadily eroded. But in 1997 'new' Labour were elected and........wait for it… what did Labour do about restoring the link as promised? That's right ... precisely nothing! Worse still, one of the first things that Gordon Brown, the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer did was to raid everyone's pension funds by way of a 'back-door' tax, making us even worse off.
FACT: Remember the massive unemployment aftermath of Thatcher's attacks on Trades Unions, when she effectively threw out the baby with the bathwater. The manufacturing base of this country was all but annihilated, and Labour promised faithfully to restore manufacturing jobs and a balanced economy. Yet what happened in the 13 years of Labour government? Labour cuddled up to the City and the financial institutions, relaxing regulations so that when the banking sector collapsed (as foreseen by LibDem Vince Cable some 5 years earlier), having failed to re-balance the economy, we were up the proverbial creek without a paddle. These are FACTS, not fiction!!!
FACT: Within 6 months of the LibDems being in coalition government, not only was the link between State pension and NAE restored, but the LibDems also secured the 'triple-lock', which guarantees that the State pension will rise annually by the higher of NAE, the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) or 2.5%. And on top of that, they secured the largest ever single annual increase in the State pension since it was first introduced under the Liberal government of David Lloyd George. (Remember the insulting 75p per week pension increase under Labour?)
FACT: And what about the 1.6 million new apprenticeships started by the LibDems, all part of developing the properly balanced economy promised by Labour, but never delivered!
FACT: And talking of 'local' politics, I should tread very carefully if I were you. Notoriously Labour locally are known for being pretty good as 'opposing' but leave much to be desired regarding 'proposing'. Take the local budget for example; at each of the last three annual budget council meetings I have attended, Labour has failed to address the budgets as delivered by Cllr. Jarrett (Tory), choosing instead to attack Westminster politics (because they have no alternative suggestions of their own). Geoff Juby (leader of the LibDem Group) on the other hand, always addresses the local budget in his responses to Cllr. Jarrett. And as we know, when it comes to voting on the local budget, you have to either vote for it in its entirety or against it in its entirety.... there is no option to cherry-pick! The reason Cllr. Diana Smith voted in favour of the 2014/15 local budget was because there was much in there that was to the benefit of the residents of Watling ward and Diana, being Diana, always puts the interests of the residents of the ward she represents above anything else, which is very much to her credit and is why she attracts more votes than any other candidate in that ward. Oh! And Labour failed to vote at all on the 2013/14 local budget!
So, let's have less of the crap Ben! I suggest you look more deeply into the background of your Labour party, both nationally and locally before you start throwing stones. Let's face it Labour leaves much to be desired from the very top to the very bottom. I could, if I wanted to, conduct a real hatchet job on Labour's reputation, but I really don't think it is all that necessary, I mean, their record does it all for me.
Well said Tony and totally right. Typical mud flinging by Labour who can only oppose not propose!
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