Clegg & his part in the death of British Liberal Democracy

Mr Nick Clegg will be remembered as the man who single handedly took Liberal Democracy from relative irrelevance, smiled & talked on a TV debate, managing to convince voters he was a viable alternative to the dreadful Gordon Brown. He then took the LibDems from unelectability, reneged on almost every single principle of Liberal Democracy to make an unreasonable & some may say devilish pact with the dark side of the political agenda by using his party's votes to enable Cameron's Conservatives to unexpectedly sieze power in an unholy alliance of mismatched bedfellows. 

After then having gained power literally by any means necessary, Clegg and his band then u-turned 180degrees on degrees and their pledge to fund free degree education for everybody capable of completing it. They had seen free education as a route to restoration of a selfish,  thoughtless stupid miscalculated misstep of the evil hater of working people everywhere, Thatcherism when they deregulated higher education to make it a quasi profit driven, government funded, competing market. 

However, when faced with political principles versus political prominence,  Clegg caved in to conservative demands to make education pay even more for itself by forcing a "buy-now, pay-later" culture on all future, prospective degree students. 

The "DFS-ing"  of UK higher education just piles the illusion of win-win in the middle of an undesirable status quo by suggesting graduates will make more than enough future salary from their degree to justify & finance their massive, lengthy repayments, or them avoiding repayment if their life doesn't quite work out the way they planned and they don't earn more than a rather low salary. 

Anyway, this week Clegg, who seems badgered by divisions in his own party, some activists within which probably always had a conscience and no doubt stood silent yet aghast as they saw their manifesto tossed out after the vote count, their consternation tempered only by the rise in their pulses as they began to sniff a possible power thrill  they never seriously thought they'd be a country mile away from experiencing. 

As they move from being the people with the ridiculous, idealistic policies to the uncomfortable collaborators in their own and possibly their country's demise, I imagine there was a feeling of no return as one bastion of progressiveness after another was torn down in one action after another to blame the little guy for all the economic problems and make him responsible for tightening his belt as the solution. 

It was one step beyond. Will you listen to Clegg this week claiming that it was the libdems only who were prepared to get their hands dirty? Their hands are dirty. No wonder we feel hopeless when those who dedicate their lives to being the best, turn out to be the worst. At least the Tories stuck by their traditions even with their coldness towards the basic needs & expectations of those working people in they're supposed to serve. 

Clegg & the Lib Dems are finished. Nobody will ever trust them again. 

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