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Originally Posted by martyh
was this not a contingency plan in case of a hung parliament ,if the libdems had taken power on their own would they have stuck to the original pledge ?
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That we'll never know.
The issue here appears to be, coalition or not, that Nick Clegg was sending out signals and giving pledges which he knew (at least a month in advance of doing so) that he would politically, if not fiscally, be unable to honour.
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Sorry Martyh, bit of a cross post there on my part.