I have to say that since SKS’s decision to market himself as Farage’s mini-me, I’m looking at them in greater detail than I was previously.
We’ll probably end up with a Reform/Lib Dem coalition where we’ll be racist, but also terribly nice about it.
I just think that in those days the country still believed it could have nice things, and the average LD voter was a fairly idealistic sort.
I actually really miss feelings like optimism myself.
From memory, they’d made it one of their key pledges, and it was something that got a lot of voters voting for them, wanting others to have the same opportunities that they’d enjoyed.
Education used to be considered a key feature of a civilized nation, rather than a money-making racket for...
There’s a lot of positive stuff in there. If they can bring peace to the Middle East then you have to credit them with God/Trump like levels of power though.
My historical concern with them was watching their work on tuition fees in the Clegg years. A breathtaking u-turn at a speed I couldn’t...