SIR – Nick Clegg has got nothing out of being in the Coalition that David Cameron didn’t want to do anyway – apart from a referendum on the voting system I predict he is going to lose.
Even if he won it, it would be a miserable, self-serving gain.
All the policy gains claimed by the Lib Dems are illusory. George Osborne was grateful for the excuse to drop the inheritance tax cut and to postpone the tax break for marriage – and this is the tip of the iceberg.
The basis of the Lib Dems’ support was that they were not the party of power and therefore had some principles.
Since they have been in Government they have conformed to the public’s prejudice that all politicians will sell out their principles.
Clegg has been used brilliantly by Cameron, entirely to the Tory party’s benefit.
The Lib-Dems face electoral meltdown with no policy gains to show for it.
Linda Arnold, Beech Street, Bingley
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