Excellent piece from Tom Harris in the Telegraph about the Lib Dems. In this article he talks about the Lib Dem’s history of policy U-turns, the party’s hypocrisy and its contempt for democracy.

It’s well worth reading in its entirety but the key passage for me was this one that touched upon the tuition fees policy reversal:

In a long list of reversals and U-turns by the junior partner in the coalition government between 2010 and 2015, that was the one that most defined the party’s betrayal of its own voters and which probably contributed most to its defenestration at the 2015 election, when it lost all but eight of the 57 seats it had won five years earlier.

Yet the party still plays the role of the victim, the only principled party in a den of thieves. Even its most well known policy – the adoption of proportional representation for general elections – is entirely self-serving. The Lib Dems want a voting system that will give them greater representation in the Commons, but criticise as immoral those who oppose reform on the basis that it would do the opposite for them. And in 2019 the party of unimpeachable ethical standards committed to overturning the result of the 2016 EU referendum – the consequence of the largest popular participation in any vote in British history – with no more than a parliamentary vote by MPs.

The Liberal Democratic Party: neither liberal nor democratic. Yet come the next election, we’ll witness the party leader, Ed Davey, preach – an entirely appropriate term in the circumstances – about how only his party can be trusted to tell the truth to voters, almost as if the last ten years never happened.

Well said there Mr Harris and thank you for reminding readers and voters why a vote given to the Janus faced Liberal Democrats is rarely a good idea.