When Nick Clegg was on Mumsnet...

[LilyBolero]

When Nick Clegg came onto Mumsnet, I specifically asked him how it was fair that 'middle' class people may not be able to afford university in future.

His reply...

I have always believed university admissions should be based on your grades and your ability, not your background or your bank balance. That?s why we have always opposed tuition fees, which push up the cost and make it harder for people other than the very wealthiest to afford to get a degree. We will scrap unfair tuition fees for all students taking their first degrees saving them over £10,000 each. We have a financially responsible plan to phase fees out over six years, so that the change is affordable in these difficult economic times.

That lasted a long time then.

no, I'm not blaming Clegg at all.

(sorry, I thought you were referring to my post, but you were talking about the OP).

God what a wanker. That pledge on MN was just a few weeks ago.

It isn't a question of him ditching principles for a sniff of power. He personally really is up for a purist market liberalism, no matter what the more 'social democratic' wing of hi party wants. See this piece today by John Gray in LRB

Eleison that's a good point.
Right wing of the party, deffo.

vesela, I made the "sniff of power" comment and I'm not a Labour supporter, nor do I think Labour have a god-given right to be in power. Don't make assumptions.

(I don't vote Labour, Tory or Lib Dem and I don't think I ever would)

God, I miss my LRB subscription.

God its all a load of shit

Reading that LRB article - it is just utter crap - excuses,banter, filling pages for pages sake and making everyone sound very important (including the writer)

The fact is that Clegg is a duplicitous liar. That's it.

And no-one likes a liar.

sorry, doggie - the "sniff of power" comment is just one that you hear from Labour voters/members all the time, that's all. I was referring to GetOrfMyLand's comment about Clegg being power-hungry, as well. Of course he is, he wants to change a crap system.

that LRB article is useless.

Clegg has made a twat of himself, just as Blair did when he made promises vis a vis tuition fees.

Poilticians need to look at the numbers before they make any pledges.

I don't think the Lib Dems should have made this pledge but I don't think they are duplicitous liars.
They didn't win the election. It's not a Lib Dem government. It's a coalition and one of the areas they had to compromise on was tuition fees. They could hardly expect the whole programme to go ahead, could they?

Did he say anything about Lib Dem policy limiting faith schools' right to select children?

The point is Turnip that they don't have to support it.

There is something laugh out loud funny about the sentence: "Clegg has made a twat of himself"