What policies have the Lib Dem introduced into Government?

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Can anyone tell me which policies the Lib Dems have introduced since joining the 'coalition' Government?

-DH said higher personal allowance for tax
-Royal Mail (missed that one in their manifesto tbh)

anything else?

as a former Lib Dem voter, I am feeling very low

Referendum on PR is going ahead. That's quite a biggie.

well that anonymity for rape defendants thing was a Lib Dem one but fortunately lots & lots of campaigning got them to throw it out.

have a look at the conference speeches (they're mostly on the lib dem site.

also what Clegg said in recent interview:

"It is not a game of parallel shopping lists. What is emerging is something much more interesting ? a mix, a blend of things. Of course you get tensions in a coalition and there are differences of emphasis, but we have been working incredibly hard to combine thinking on both sides." A "classic example" is an NHS policy merging Tory plans for GP commissioning with Liberal Democrat proposals to decentralise and make the service accountable to local government."

sethstarkaddersmum, did the rape anonymity thing get thrown out for sure? I saw your comment on that somewhere else but couldn't find anything saying it was out formally (if it is, good).

hmm, I definitely read things in newspapers saying that it was, but I can't remember where or how reliable the source was.

stupid of me to forget PR - I guess I just see this as crashing and burning (hope I'm wrong).

The problem with the Lib Dem's local NHS proposals is that there won't be a local level the PCT can be allied with will there? As RDAs are going (to be replaced by LEPs in some places). Not sure what is happening to the total place agenda? Local authorities won't be integrated the PCTs? Or is GP commissioning Lib Dem localism? Find it all a bit confusing tbh.

Thanks. Hopefully.

I've probably said it before, but the best way of measuring Lib Dem influence is to go to the more right wing Tory sites and see what they're complaining about...

Pupil Premium is going to be introduced
Elected House of Lords
Fixed term Parliaments
Raise the the income tax threshold
Increase in the rate of Capital Gains tax
Scrapping ID cards
Great Repeal act
End to detention of child asylum seekers
No third runway at Heathrow
Ban finger printing of children at schools
Reduction in the amount of CCTV
Setting up of Green Investment bank

Pupil premium was a Tory policy as well as Lib Dem policy, so it doesn't count as a LD achievement.

Scrapping ID cards doesn't count for same reason.

Great Repeal Act doesn't count for same reason.

Third runway at Heathrow doesn't count for same reason.

Reducing CCTV doesn't count for same reason.

Of that list, the only one that (some) Tories will be unhappy about is raising the capital gains tax rate.

You have forgotten the one dearest to LD hearts - the referendum on AV. Also, Vince Cable is spouting off about graduate taxes and banker bashing.

Of course, some of their influence lies in what will not happen. For example, we won't stand up to the EU as much as we should. The LDs are trying to undo the coalition agreement and delay the Trident Replacement. Etc.

While there are some clearly Lib Dem achievements, not all those things are necessarily Lib Dem things alone (as are also some of the other e.g. other small-l liberal things like not sending LGBT asylum seekers back to places they're under threat)

You also hear a lot of less-quantifiable "we got this and that modified/amended" things.

When it comes down to it, I think at the next election people are going to be voting in a fairly broad-brush way on how much liberalism/centralism they want in their government.

Huddspur let's look at the reality

Pupil Premium is going to be introduced (When? Education funding will still be savagely cut. Arguably no new money. What changes will have to be made to the Admissions Code to accomodate pupil premiums?. Bet these allow for more selection to appease Tory right wing)
Elected House of Lords ( when? The team working on this in govt have been disbanded)
Fixed term Parliaments ( A time lock on power)
Raise the the income tax threshold0
Increase in the rate of Capital Gains tax
Scrapping ID cards ( They were VOLUNTARY)
Great Repeal act ( This is likely to also include many employment rights)
End to detention of child asylum seekers ( Yes because they are all being deported without 0adequate efforts to ensure their welfare.
No third runway at Heathrow
Ban finger printing of children at schools( Hooray - but they will be in leaky classrooms with no teaching assistants and squat diddley chance of getting to university unless their family can pay fees of £10k)
Reduction in the amount of CCTV ( I feel safe with cctv. Especially when rail staff are no longer at stations and I have to travel home from work late at night. What is the middle class obsession with cctv. Do you think the camera steals your soul?)
Setting up of Green Investment bank