Earlier in the week I received a reply to the letter and petition I sent to Lib Dem MP Simon Wright. A copy can be seen in the photographs.It is probably what one would expect. Very woolly. Very uncommitted. Very much doing what the party leadership want.
In one paragraph Simon still believes in free higher education, but dismissed it in another because we can't have all our own way in the coalition and current economic downturn.
In another he said the Browne recommendations is a graduation tax in all but name (what 
the NUS want). Yet in another he says graduates earning £25,000 will only pay back £30 a month, but he doesn't say how long this will take to pay off the whole loan and where he gets the £4000 from.
the NUS want). Yet in another he says graduates earning £25,000 will only pay back £30 a month, but he doesn't say how long this will take to pay off the whole loan and where he gets the £4000 from.After all this praise for the recommendation, Simon then gives us a bit of (false?) hope saying he still undecided how to vote.
At this time we need our MPs to stand up and make their voice heard, not praising the recommendations but dithering how to vote.
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Could it perhaps be that if he says he's unsure of how he's going to vote, it makes it a lot harder for the whips to make life difficult for him before the vote, and could force them to make concessions as he's not the only MP doing this?
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