to think Nick Clegg has sunk to new lows during this interview?

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Jeremy Vine has just played the audio of Nick Clegg's election campaign video during which he categorically stated no more broken promises. He then went on to outline the lengths Clegg went to to drive home his promise not to allow the raising of tuition fees.

Asked to explain himself, Nick Clegg said (petulantly) "Well, we didn't win". So basically he's saying "Thanks for the votes, suckers, but I'm not in Number 10 therefore you can whistle for whtever crap I promised"

Apologes for the lack of coherence, but I am still spitting feathers!

P.S. Be gentle; this is my first AIBU (I think!)

"As for fewer people doing post Grads- arf. the board at the local uni are talking about only taking people with an MA or similar for courses such as PGCE, and they are far from RG / equivalent status. I've been advised MA is the best route into Social Work now, and teaching similar"

Is that in part because so many people have degrees though? Would it gradually be dropped if our attitude towards uni being the logical next step for so many people after school was changed?

Agree with you on grammar schools. Think that the education system should recognise that ability comes in different forms - it's not just academic ability which counts.

As for the economy - yes we have to make cuts, but the way in which it's being done feels wrong.

"What is true imo is our education system is a mess partly because the establishment have always opted out so don't care enough about what the rest of us get. Our education system has been blighted by this for 100 years and it will continue and probably get worse. This just isn't going to change I don't think."

Have you seen this article about private schools boosting state school pupil's achievement?

Perhaps the problem isn't that people already opt out - but that not enough in the UK are able to - I wonder if grammer schools would count?

Clegg never though his party was going to win - so Lib Dems could promise whatever they thought the voters would like to hear and thought that they would never have to deliver. Grabbed a bit of power, going into the coalition with the unspeakables - let's hope he's toast. Can't stand the man, comes over as a total prat.
There, feel better now.

"The economists don't really agree though.
If they were that bad, why are billions being wasted on reconfiguring the NHS (for example?). If we had no money then such things would be unaffordable, no?"

YEs, things are not that bad. CUTS are TORY policy. Especially cuts that affect the more vulnerable & less well off in society.

The situation is very bad we have a deficit that is the equivalent of 12% of GDP. That said that does not mean that the Government has absolutely no money to make any reforms whatsoever.