[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;34118917]robbing the socialists of their raison d'étre.[/QUOTE]
Yes, I'm sure this was the reason and [I]nothing else.[/I]
Nick Clegg, who gives a fuck? His career and his party are finished.
[QUOTE=Thoughtless;34118190]She basically ripped out the entire working class, and caused there to be an underclass that couldn't get any work, and their children are so used to being on the dole you can't get them working ethically, all because of some short term problems.[/QUOTE]
She's also responsible for the invention of that revolting vegetable-oil 'ice cream' during her previous career as an industrial chemist.
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;34111384]They betrayed students, the next generation of voters. We aren't going to forget that. [/QUOTE]
Just like thatcher. My dad was a budding astronomy student when thatcher was in power and consequently moved to north america.
[editline]9th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=ewitwins;34118124]Margaret Thatcher was the Ronald Reagan of the U.K., wasn't she?[/QUOTE]
She was worse
I don't get all this blame being put on Lib Dems. They aren't fully in power, Conservatives are, they probably had very little influence over what happened with the University fees. To be honest they are just a scape goat for the Tories to do what they want and it's working beautifully, no one will vote for Lib Dems for a good few elections (Although it's not like they've had a fighting chance for a long time anyway).
[QUOTE=squids_eye;34142099]I don't get all this blame being put on Lib Dems. They aren't fully in power, Conservatives are, they probably had very little influence over what happened with the University fees. To be honest they are just a scape goat for the Tories to do what they want and it's working beautifully, no one will vote for Lib Dems for a good few elections (Although it's not like they've had a fighting chance for a long time anyway).[/QUOTE]
No but they have the chance to vote against anything proposed in the debate. Clegg said he would vote against tuition fees and he voted for them
[QUOTE=squids_eye;34142099]I don't get all this blame being put on Lib Dems. They aren't fully in power, Conservatives are, they probably had very little influence over what happened with the University fees. To be honest they are just a scape goat for the Tories to do what they want and it's working beautifully, no one will vote for Lib Dems for a good few elections (Although it's not like they've had a fighting chance for a long time anyway).[/QUOTE]
They knew full well when they decided to form a coalition with the tories that they'd be the scapegoat, and they then decided to accept it, bend over and lube up.
If they are so desparate to have even the illusion of being in power, as opposed to standing for their principles, then they do not deserve to be voted for. They're basically blindly voting for anything the tories do, as opposed to standing for their principles with the (small) amount of power that they have.
[QUOTE=matt.ant;34111098]"[B]We are trying to make sure that young unemployed people are not blighted by long periods of unemployment as they were in the 1980s.[/B]"[/QUOTE]
Shame youth unemployment is at its highest since Thatcher was in power.
Looks like the UK is going to become just another two party system...
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;34147351]Looks like the UK is going to become just another two party system...[/QUOTE]
it has been pretty much for a long time. the liberal democrats haven't been in power in my lifetime and i doubt they have been in yours either
[QUOTE=Terminutter;34144585]They knew full well when they decided to form a coalition with the tories that they'd be the scapegoat, and they then decided to accept it, bend over and lube up.
If they are so desparate to have even the illusion of being in power, as opposed to standing for their principles, then they do not deserve to be voted for. They're basically blindly voting for anything the tories do, as opposed to standing for their principles with the (small) amount of power that they have.[/QUOTE]
As opposed to what? Having a full Tory government? How is that any better than what we have now?
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