Championship record

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In the race between the three main parties at who can be the slimiest and most unprincipled, the LibDems have taken what seems so far an unassailable lead. It has been revealed that, two months before they went to the polls on a written pledge from every candidate to oppose university tuition fees, the LibDem leadership already regarded such pledges as worthless in the event of a coalition government. As a coalition government was the only likely way for the LibDems to enter government, this means that the LibDems offered written pledges to their electorate that they knew to be worthless. This is championship standard stuff, well ahead of Cameron's "cast-iron promise" with the built-in rust and miles beyond Gordon Brown's attempt to blame anyone but himself for his own choices.

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Re: Two mon. ths later...

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P.S.: it's not so much being upset, as being convinced that certain basic features of communication between human beings are violated only at the danger of the whole community. Where would we be if, when Churchill had spoken his inauguration address ("...I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat...") and his Dunkirk address, people in general had taken them as you seem to, as meaningless sound? How would the nation even have accepted that there was a grim struggle ahead? And the rest of the world? How would treaties be concluded, laws passed and obeyed, taxes paid, if the words of politicians were taken as meaningless? But I also think that you are mistaken in point of fact, in your interpretation of what has been happening in this country since Mr.Clegg revealed the depths of his bad faith. But I should also have remembered something else: that you, with all your charm and talent, are very English indeed. And that the most English feature I know of is the underlying, pig-iron obstinacy, to which facts are simply irrelevant. If an English person ever decides that the sun is blue, that is the way it is, and too bad for facts, let alone reason. I have known this much too long to be surprised or angry at it.