Ladies and gentleman welcome to Westminster. In the yellow corner, weighing in at 57 parliamentary seats its the liberal democrats. Here’s an interesting photo.
Yes its liberal democrat party leader Nick Clegg holding up a sighed document reading “I pledge to vote against any increase in fees”. Thats what the lib-dems do when they want your vote. Today lib-dem business secretary Vince Cable gave government approval to a report calling for an unlimited rise in tuition fees. In doing so he is not only burning the ladder he climbed but also the people who held it up. Nick Clegg and Vince Cable won my vote by getting behind students and I guess you have to be behind people if you want to stab them in the back.
Their contenders tonight, in the blue corner weighing in at 306 parliamentary seats its the conservative party. Since the tory party came to power they have been cutting child benefit and disability benefits as well as cancelling funding for creative organisations like the UK film council by branding it all as “government waste”. Now that would be a perfectly legitimate thing to do if the tory party had not been funded to the tune of £10million by non-don Lord Ashcroft. Lord Ashcroft, former party chairman was recommend for a seat in the house of Lords By then Tory leader William Hague, (after a £3miilion donation to his election campaign) Hague had to convince Blair to award the peerage and the deal was that Lord Ashcroft would start paying fair tax in the UK, he didn’t, despite being a UK citizen worth over £1.1billion. So next time you hear David Cameron defend a cuts aimed at the poor with the phrase “government waste” ask yourself how he got to where he is and where that money should be.
LETS GET READY TO RUMMBBBLLLLLEEEEEE
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idlebicyle reblogged this from closetobeingright and added:
didn’t vote. Id...voted Lib Dem. This is vindication. I see elections as an exercise
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