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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
I don't see any mention of the pledge, pictured below, being contingent on their winning the election.
For those with poor or failing eyesight / memories it states:
"I pledge TO VOTE AGAINST ANY INCREASE IN FEES in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce A FAIRER ALTERNATIVE" (my emphasis).
Clearly there was no inference that this pledge was contingent on their winning the election unless, of course, we are expected to believe by way of some paradoxical anomaly that they were intent on pressuring themselves to introduce a "fairer alternative" than what they, themselves, might propose.
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Fair shout, but the pledge was still made on the understanding that they wouldn't be part of a coalition government.
Clegg has made it clear that this is somthing that ideally they wouldn't havewanted to do, but when they were negotiating the terms of the coalition agreement this was a policy they had to compromise/concede on.
That's just a fact, if they had gone into this coalition and had been able to keep every policy that they wanted then it wouldn't be a coalition would it?
Likewise with the Tories, they've had to concede on some of their manifesto.
I don't see why "educated" students can't understand the reality of the situation?