During the General Election campaign, Nick Clegg, did a Vlog for students in an honest bid for their votes. He could say with hand-on-heart only the Liberal Democrats had the policies on tuition fees which students would vote for. He looked down the camera and said raising the cap was "wrong."
Five months later and the Lib-Dems are doing another political pirouette where the old sage Vince Cable (above) is compelled to adopt a laissez-faire approach to higher education. He has accepted wholesale the report from John Browne, former BP Chief Executive whose adherence to pure free-market solutions is hardly a surprise.
If it passes it will allow the BIS to cut University tuition funding by 80 percent so effectively privatising higher education. That's a pretty shameful legacy for anyone seeking to proclaim the achievements of the Liberal cause.
There are rumours of 30 (that's half) of the Lib-Dem MPs are willing to vote against it which with Labour support could actually defeat the Government. Such is the political turmoil at the heart of every Lib-Dem, they will be distraught whatever the result.
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