• 9point6@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    The lib Dems and Tories decided to fuck over our youth back in the early 2010s

    Lib Dems campaigned on a promise of free uni (it had gotten to about £3k a year at the time, up from the less than £1k a year the previous generation had got) then did the exact opposite and tripled the price when awarded the power to do something about it.

    I can’t bring myself to ever trust a word they say again. And anyone that says the Tories stopped them, they were the only thing keeping the Tories in power, they were a VoNC away from potentially preventing 15 years of Tory kleptocracy and all the damage they caused (and that’s without going into how those Tory governments repeatedly normalised increasingly far-right positions)

    At best they’re entirely useless at worst they’re just another shade of Tory

    • kaitco@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      4 days ago

      Lib Dems campaigned on a promise of free uni … then did the exact opposite and tripled the price when awarded the power to do something about it.

      Un-freaking-believable…

      I’ve always known the Tories were trash, but I had no idea that there was a whole extra party that were just as bad. Crimony…

      • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        4 days ago

        The Lib Dems really aren’t just as bad, they’re actually one of the better major parties. Unfortunately they made a deal with the devil to get a chance at power and the Tories completely fucked them over. That said, Clegg (their leader at the time) then left politics to work for Facebook so maybe he was a bastard all along!

      • Nighed@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        4 days ago

        They did it to get a referendum on a new voting method. They chose a shit one no one wanted though