Clegg’s failure
Three years later, in 1999, 15 newly elected Lib Dem MSPs at the new Holyrood parliament did a deal with Labour selling the policy out in Scotland. That set a trend which Charles Kennedy, alas could not stop and which cost him his job when he tried a different kind of leadership.
Nick Clegg sold out his party’s policy on tuition fees in 2010 just as the 15 MSPs had in 1999. The Lib Dem party conference is supposed to make the policy. Paddy is as much a part of the problem as Nick.
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Hide AdA handful of posh-boy characters at the top of the party do not listen to the members.
The failure is Mr Clegg’s. Special conference be hanged. He does not agree with the policies members vote for at conference and so just makes it up as he goes along, disregarding policy he doesn’t like. Bring back Charlie Kennedy.
Nigel F Boddy
Fife Road
Darlington