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The Liberal Democrats Party Election Broadcast on the eve of their 2010 Election Manifesto launch. Nick Clegg talks of the broken promises put forward by the Labour party and Conservatives, and that a vote for the Lib Dems means a vote for hope and an end to broken promises.

Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, Vince Cable MP, gives his response to today’s Budget;

“Today’s budget wasn’t honest.

The Chancellor is incapable of coming clean about where spending cuts will have to fall. Rather than being honest with people about what the Government can and cannot afford, the Chancellor would rather let others indiscriminately shave departmental budgets.

And the Budget did nothing to make Britain a fairer society.

We’re campaigning for fair taxes, lifting millions of people out of income tax altogether. But today’s Budget, by confirming the freeze in personal allowances, means everyone will see a real increase in their income tax bill.

Rather than forcing the nationalised banks to lend to good British businesses, Labour have chosen to create a feeble quango to arbitrate between bullying banks and their small business clients.

Today’s Budget shows even more clearly that Britain needs real change.”

The Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg MP, speech to the party’s spring conference in Birmingham on Sunday 14th March.

More on the Liberal Democrats Spring Conference.

Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Qurban Hussain, Liberal Democrat PPC for Luton South today visited PACT Engineering Ltd in Luton. Pact Engineering Limited is a sub contractor and manufacturer of high quality precision components. The recession has impacted on PACT, an otherwise health business, forcing the management to restructure the working day reducing shift patterns from a 3 shifts to 2.