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Now that
Nick Clegg has performed one of the most spectacular political about turns of recent years with his reversal of Lib Dem election pledges on tuition fees, I wonder if the Lib Dem voters might start to appreciate cynicism a bit more?
Everybody expects Labour and the Tories to lie their way from power to opposition and back again but the Lib Dems? Surely not. They always held that precious third place which allowed them the sanctimoniousness of taking part with all the pious devotion to truth which never having to govern, and thus break a promise, engenders. They could have their cake and eat it.
But they're a bit fucked now.
To be exposed as a Liberal with Labour sympathies is one thing but to be found out as a Tory-Lite Liberal is quite another. It's in the names you see. '
Liberal' - favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs - and '
Conservative' - favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change - are incompatible ideals, if not from opposite ends of the political spectrum then certainly on opposing sides. The result is a coalition government that emphasises the redundancy of the UK's political process. A government that irks Conservatives and Lib Dems alike in equal measure as election manifesto promises are jettisoned in the mad rush to reduce the apparently terrifying deficit. The Twitter hashtag for all things coalition related is
#condem which succintly paraphrases how many feel about this twisting of ideologies and the resulting policies.
So, if all parties lie - whether it be WMDs, child benefit or tuition fees - either to gain power or once in power then what purpose does engagement with mainstream politics serve other than to dishearten and disenfranchise the voters?
UK general election turnout actually rose in 2005 and 2010 but it must be becoming clear to all that the policies of any British government are dependent not upon the populace who put them there but upon protection of the capitalist system and the ruling class who benefit directly from it. It is not for nothing that the attacks being lined up on public spending fall most heavily on the working class and barely touch the people who actually caused this mess - the bankers. After the heady days of forming their first government maybe ordinary Lib Dem voters, like disillusioned Labour and Tory supporters before them, are now starting to appreciate where they fit into all this a bit better.
Presence - In Wonder (Single) (Reality Records LOL1 1991)
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