Labour today seized on Nick Clegg's much-mocked apology on tuition fees, releasing a dossier of the Lib Dem record in government.
Labour today seized on Nick Clegg’s much-mocked apology on tuition fees, releasing a dossier (pdf) of the Lib Dem record in government.
Titled “What have the Liberal Democrats REALLY done for you” (pdf), it says it’s “time for Mr Clegg and the Liberal Democrats to accept their share of the blame” for the failures of the coalition, and that:
“It’s time for a proper apology.”
The document (pdf) highlights policy by policy the party’s record on tax, jobs and growth, education, crime, older people and families, health, environment and transport, international development, fair politics and equality.
It cites the main failures as:
• The longest double-dip recession since the Second World War;
• A million young people unemployed;
• A tax cut for millionaires;
• A massive top-down reorganisation of the NHS.
Clegg himself suffered further ignominy with an autotune remix of his apology:
Nick Clegg: The gift that keeps giving.
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6 Responses to “So, Nick, when will you apologise for the double-dip, youth unemployment, NHS ‘reform’…”
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Larger? No, they generally do not. Most Universities offset fees by a meaningless amount – 8k rather than 9k will make no difference to their actual repayments in the vast majority of cases.
Worse, the cash has come in part from things like money for hardship loans, for students who run into financial trouble through no fault of their own.
And Labour already drove away a lot of poor people with 3.3k.
You’re the person trying to trick students into losing money over their working lifespan. It’s chicanery.