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Originally Posted by JoshBB

The tories taking credit for what the Lib Dems have introduced is unacceptable imo

It was inevitable that would happen because the Lib Dems, Nick Clegg in particular,threw out so much of his own policies,which were really good ones,to firstly ensure the fixed term parliament for 5 years got thorung, thereby ensuring the Lib Dems were in shared govt; for at least 5 years, with a few ministerial positions and his title of deputy PM.

The Conservatives used the raising of tax thresholds for the lower paid to get throught their tax cuts for the far higher earners,which the Lib Dems accepted and supported in full.

It is unfair the way the Conservatives have hijacked the whole policy,even moreso because they wouldn't have done it on the scale the Lib Dems did insist on.
had the Lib Dems insisted no changes to the higher tax levels and only agreed to the changes for the lower paid bands,much more credibility could have been hled onto by them.

Really,other than that policy, all the Lib Dems have in fact supported are slightly watered down measures of Conservative policy,their modeating influence having really little effect.
They allowed the Conservatives to govern as if they had got an overall majority and are in my view, paying the right price for abandoning their principles, their word and pledges to the people who trusted and voted for them to do much more, in controlling either party in govt:

The one thing that mystifies me, if the country and voters hate what the Lib Dems have supported,is how any credit for same should go to the Conservatives.
If policies are wrong, they are wrong and both parties that have presented the policies deserve the same condemnation as to same too.
The Conservatives sadly used and played the Lib Dems and Nick Clegg let them in effect walk all over him and his party for the full near 5 years.