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Two of these articles (those with the most comments) are about tuition fees. In the two articles about The Last Clegg the threads refer to Clegg’s comments on tuition fees in the TV show. It doesn’t look like being forgotten as an issue any time soon.
Oops! And now tuition fees are in this thread as well. 😉
@Peter Watson
“Two of these articles (those with the most comments) are about tuition fees. In the two articles about The Last Clegg the threads refer to Clegg’s comments on tuition fees in the TV show. It doesn’t look like being forgotten as an issue any time soon.”
Yes, that’s surprising. I was quite convinced it would have been forgotten by now – just goes to show how much I know about politics. 😉
@Simon Shaw “I was quite convinced it would have been forgotten by now”
Setting aside the details of tuition fees policy for the time being (there’s plenty of that elsewhere!), I think there’s too much political gold to be mined out of the Lib Dem position for anybody else to forget the issue in the run up to the election.
There was a costed manifesto policy to “scrap unfair tuition fees”: fair enough as the starting point for any negotiations. But at the last election, every Lib Dem candidate made a big deal out of the NUS pledge: “I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative.”. They posed for photos and courted the student vote with a personal promise that was consistent with the manifesto policy. Later, the party – and its leader most prominently – finished the election campaign with a high profile message about “no more broken promises”.
None of the technical debate about tuition fees counters the charges of at worst being dishonest and/or incompetent in 2010 or at best being as bad as the other parties despite claiming to be better. That is why the issue will not disappear, and why I doubt that the sort of discussions we are having in other threads will help the party whichever side “wins” the debate about the best way to fund tertiary education.
I was being sarcastic actually, Peter. 😉