Agree with your comments regarding the cuts, especially the decision to stop the BSF project which would help all state schools in favour of free schools which will, in effect, help very few schools.

Tories have short termist policies. They don’t care about the future and investment. They care about here and now and themselves. Which is why they’re whingeing on about the deficit – which Labour wouldn’t have needed to run up if the Tories hadn’t run the country into the ground. But they could have raised taxes to offset it, IMO. I think they slipped up there.

The Tories are idealogically opposed to raising taxes, at least on wealth and so those more able to pay. The LibDems will be in the history books for this little bit of power which cost them everything, including their principles and ultimately their party.

I comfort myself in the knowledge that neither party had the mandate to do this and they will pay. Unfortunately after we’ve paid more.