I didnae mean it.....

Every Lib Dem candidate at the general election signed a written pledge to oppose any rise in tuition fees. It has now emerged that they knew well in advance that they didn't mean  it. At least, the Lib Dem leadership never meant it.

Watch Katy Razzle on channel 4 news fillet the Lib Dems position.



How uneasy does Clegg look in this clip?

He's holding the pledge like it was a disease encrusted bandage.

Yeeughh!.... his body language says.

No wonder...

BTW, the Lib Dems aren't the only ones that have changed their position. When tuition fees were being introduced, Ken Clarke said...

 "It is the ordinary student from the ordinary family who just fails to qualify for that help who will carry the burden of tens of thousands of pounds-worth of debt in the first years after they graduate. Does he seriously expect that that will have no effect at all on the willingness of such people to go in for the more expensive courses in higher education?"

I wonder what he thinks now that the fees have been tripled......