Posted on 05/16/2010 6:20:09 AM PDT by C19fan
David Cameron used the coalition talks with Nick Clegg as an excuse to ditch ‘daft’ Tory policies he secretly wanted to get rid of all along - such as scrapping inheritance tax and getting rid of his pledge to rip up the Human Rights Act, it was claimed last night.
The leader of Mr Clegg’s negotiating team, new Scottish Secretary Danny Alexander, said his Conservative counterparts, led by William Hague and George Osborne, produced a list of Mr Cameron’s manifesto pledges and invited the Lib Dems to strike them out.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It looks like the Brits have been lied to by a politician. That doesn’t even deserve a headline.
This is from the Daily Mail, so I would take the article with a grain of salt.
TINO - Tory In Name Only!
RAB Butler lives!
It’s as if Thatcher never happened. The welfare state conservatives are back in charge.
Hey, you stole my post before I could type it in! :-)
Probably ought to be a real Republican party in Britain anyway. No more pointless monarchy sopping up tax dollars. Get out of the EU, get rid of the welfare state.
...And stop pretending that the Church of England is the church of England. Cut it loose.
Cameron is a closet liberal.
You realize that most if not all of the conservatives in the UK (not just Tories, but anybody there who would be at home among Freepers) are monarchists? In the UK it's the far leftists who want a Socialist republic.
If this is true, Cameron is going to facing a back bench rebellion that could topple his Premiership. Probably not now, but eventually. Those manifesto commitments are taken seriously by the party rank and file.
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