"the real alternative"

Thats the new Lib Dem election slogan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4320483.stm

and I have to say I really like the lib dems. Also, charles kennedy had the same philosophy instructor as I do.

I wanted to go to St Andrews... but Blair's tuition fees make it a little difficult for the working class son of a single mother to leave home.

at the University of Glasgow.

I hope your enjoying it...scotland is a beautiful place.

I dont think Im supposed to say that out loud being from England and all... but it is.

Last year before tuition fees kicked in.

You're right, Scotland is a very beautiful country.

"He told delegates that Labour had abused the public's trust and that the Tories had failed to oppose them."

Right on both counts.

Didn't look like much of an alternative here:

Last week, The Observer attacked the government's 'deeply flawed and illiberal' control orders. They were passed on Monday with a majority of 14 in the House of Commons and Britain is one step nearer to being a country where citizens can be detained for crimes not yet committed, without knowing the charges against them. It cannot even be guaranteed that information on detainees obtained from other countries has not been extracted by torture. This is made necessary, we are told, by a state of crisis judged by government alone.

Rhetoric ran high from all political parties. However, more than 150 MPs did not vote, including 16 Liberal Democrats (Charles Kennedy was one), so allowing the bill through. Nor were the Tories there in full strength. Furthermore, if all Labour members who had rebelled at some stages of the bill, had done so in the crucial vote, that alone might have changed the outcome. Nor was Tony Blair present to lead his loyal MPs through the lobby on such a queasy vote.

The Skin
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,6903,1431513,00.html