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Wed 3rd Nov 10 Playing it straight

It seems that no matter which side of the political divide MPs sit, if indeed you can have a divide in this touchy-feely age of the coalition and consensus politics, that they all suffer from the allure of power.

Take Nick Clegg and all those LibDems who now wield power in government; they all argued, in the run-up to the election, for no increase in tuition fees and pledged to the electorate that they would not support any proposed changes to the £3,000 per year threshold. Now that they're in power they will be supporting the Tory-led stance that universities will be at liberty to charge up to £9,000-a-year from 2012.

No wonder there is no faith in politicians, when they say one thing before and election and do a volte-face immediately after. In business, if companies make outlandish claims for their products or services, and they don't live up to advertising hype, there is at lesst the Advertising Standards Authority.

The cop-out, for at least the next 12 months, is that any policy reversal will simply be put down to the fiasco of an economy thay the Lib-Cons inherited.

Fortunately, we're not so easily fooled.

Or are we?

When we have front page news about X-Factor contestants rather than the state of the economy, unemployment or the rise in the tuition fees then it seems that if we were being sold tickets to hell in handcarts, provided we'd get our faces on the telly then we'd be gladly queuing up.

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