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Filmed on Thursday October 11th

Lord Adonis tells of how the Liberal Democrats have gone back on nearly every policy they proposed saying that there are now millions of voters who voted for Lib Dem's who now wish they could retract they votes.

Talks about Nick Cleggs apology, not at all sorry for the education policy. Highlights that more intelligent people from poorer backgrounds can now get into oxford than 10 or 20 years ago, huge social progress thanks to the coalition government.

Mentions the Deficit and that you don't bring borrowing down by borrowing more.

After saying that the deficit has going down by 30% Damian Green gives way to Chris Mullen MP who has official statistics saying that the public sector net debt (The Deficit) was £802Billion in the 2nd quarter of 2010 and is now £1039Billion and has in fact risen by 30%.

Welfare and unemployment issues are addressed. Finishing with a statement that the Labour government have always left unemployment figures higher then when they came into power

Opens by saying it's unfair that more women aren't more present in today's government. He also talks about Gay marriage rights.

The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP interrupts with a joke that turns 24:23.

Highlights the fact that there are many people in the country on benefits and unemployment figures are high and we need to get out of this mess concluding that Austerity isn't the way to solve this problem

Recognises that the Lib Dems has scored one of the biggest political own goals in recent history on the issue of tuition fees.

Says that the coalition is delivering on its policies in their manifesto like the pupil premium, the abolishment of income tax on 20 million of the countries lowest earners and investing in 'The Green Economy' introducing 'The Green Deal' making a massive difference to the carbon footprint of this country.

Concludes that although they have their shortcomings we should all have confidence in the coalition government.

Says that the coalition want to destroy the public sector and are using the current economic as an excuse for doing so.

He suggests that the current government's economic program is founded on a lie formulated over a number of years with the assistance of a compliant media. The lie is that the origins of the economic crisis were uniquely British.

He mentions that no one should be surprised that George Osborne has screwed up the economy because he has a track record of misjudgement.

Concluding that we do not want to go down the road of socio economic breakdown like we did in some of the poorest parts of the country under the Labour Government

Highlights that the country is in a economic mess caused by global economic breakdown.

Says that the Banks lent foolishly and the people who were urged to borrow were a big cause of this crisis. The blame is to be spread over more than one government.

Chris Bryant MP interjects by saying that the money made on G4 sales should be spent on building 100,000 more homes easing the cost on everyone trying to get on the property ladder.

He says Labour had a liberties agenda which proposed a 90 day pre-charged detention, identity cards, DNA databases, Stops and Searches under section 44, the terrorism act, compulsory school biometrics for school records, local authorities being able to snoop on people for very trivial matters without judicial oversight. He highlights that the Labour Party took innocent people and put them on a Big Brother database for no useful reason.

He concludes by saying that the coalition government are the ones to make the difficult decisions on getting the country out of its current economic state.

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