Good riddance, Nick Clegg – you taught a whole generation to be cynical

‘Tonight we have seen Nick Clegg, deputy PM during the Con-Dem Coalition (lest any of us forget), pay the ultimate price for backtracking on his 2010 tuition fee promises.
As the results started to come in, it soon became apparent that Clegg’s Sheffield Hallam seat, which he has held safely since 2005, was under threat from Labour. In the end Clegg lost out by polling 19,756 votes and coming second to the ascendant Jared O Mara of Labour, who garnered 21,881 votes. I am a politically active millennial who went to university and voted Remain and frankly I’m delighted that Clegg has lost his seat.
Clegg struck a graceful and conciliatory tone in defeat, arguing that he had “lived by the sword and died by the sword”. Although he was probably referring to Brexit, I believe Nick Clegg has died by the sword of his broken tuition fee pledge.’
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