SIR - I’m not sure of John Appleyard’s point in “Supporting UKIP will put Tories in”, (Letters, February 17), but he is wrong in at least one respect. Nick Clegg did not “lie” about increasing Labour’s tuition fees.
I personally doubt there is a more honest politician.
What he did do, (or his negotiating team did), was to break a promise not to increase Labour’s tuition fees under pressure to quickly sort out the governance of the country.
Who’s to say that Labour, having introduced tuition fees, would not have increased them if they had regained power? Yes, promises should be kept unless circumstances change so much that they cannot be. Agreeing to Tory plans to increase Labour’s tuition fees was probably too rash, but Lib-Dems have tried to make fees subject to limitations regarding pay-back and grants to make them less of a burden on the poor than under Labour, (or should I say New Labour?)
John Hall, Pennithorne Avenue, Baildon
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