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Does the principle of completely changing a policy that people have voted for but before it is enacted apply in all cases, or just in the areas you feel strongly about?

Interesting stuff; thanks for digging it out, and for a civilised debate. I'll do some digging in my modest library and come back if any additional points emerge.

I understand what you are saying but with respect I don't think you have added anything to what has been said before - I've agreed he was unwise to sign the NUS document before the election but your suggestion that the LibDems "could have simply kept things as they were" when fees were discussed...

I'm sure you wouldn't want to claim that people should be judged by the circumstances in which they were brought up.

There is a danger of tickbox demonising here. To be a lie, an untruth has to be deliberate. The LibDems signed the pre-election tuition fee pledge in good faith, but they were naive to to so. Given the pre-election mathematics they should have realised that there was a possibility, however...

I often enjoy your posts but this is tendentious. Given the direction of travel of voting patterns in 2010, Clegg was right to prefer a coalition with the 'up and coming' Tories rather than be seen to be propping up the tired and fading Labour Party. Yes, he had been wrong to make a promise...

You picked up the typo. But you ignored the point. Perhaps you are a hypotwit.

One of your more intelligent posts.

Just out of interest - slight, admittedly, but definitely there - did you (a) spend the Millenium years supporting the Blair government and doing what you could to help it work towards its aims or (b) argue against it in a way that didn't break the law whilst doing what you could - by becoming...

An honourable man in a madhouse of careerists, mediocrities and obsessives.