Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-13-2010

[andrewducker]

• UK in talks with tax havens in bid to raise £10bn
  (tags: tax uk government)
• The Guardian article on the LibDems and tuition fees is engaging in hyperbole and half-truths
  (tags: education university uk government libdem)
• Schizophrenia may be caused by a virus embedded in our DNA.
  (tags: schizophrenia psychology medicine research health brain)
• Last year 379,030 people had benefits withdrawn for failing to seek work.
  (tags: benefits welfare uk labour)
• Lib Dems discussed abandoning tuition fees pledge to form a coalition _before_ the election.
  (tags: elections libdem government uk education)
• At-a-glance: Benefits overhaul
  (tags: benefits welfare uk)
• Government scraps anonymity pledge for rape accused. And about time too.
  (tags: rape government)
• Investment bankers are to have their company phones tapped. But not their personal ones. Completely pointless.
  (tags: banking mobile)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

The Guardian article on the LibDems and tuition fees is engaging in hyperbole and half-truths

So what they're saying is that the Lib Dems didn't plan to renege on their deal unless they were forced to form a coalition government which they already knew they would be forced to form?

Yep, definitely completely different.

[andrewducker]

Yeah - there's a great comment from "Rob" about a page down pointing out the hypocrisy.

I can't believe that the LD MPs have now promised to both vote against _and_ abstain on the same vote. Did they not read the document before agreeing to it?