What Has Changed in 2010 UK Elections and Afterwards - Essay Example

After one year of power, people have now begun to weigh the change in terms of their aspirations and ambitions materialized.

Though it might be considered a little early to evaluate the change, nonetheless the change is yet not as evident as the masses desired it to be.  Especially, the change in student fee structure has disappointed a large majority of the public. The raise was fully backed by the Conservatives and partially by the Liberal Democrat MPs. The main idea is to give universities more financial liberty to face the challenges of technological advancements and other changes at the global level and thereby improve the quality of education. As Prime Minister David Cameron has said in an interview, “We won't go back. Look, even if we wanted to, we shouldn't go back to the idea that university is free.” (Guardian, 2010) Though the intention is good behind the change in fee structure it is not gradual as most of the critics have pointed out. The maximum allowable annual fee is now £9,000 which is too much for many poor students. The universities have shown there intend to increase the fees to a maximum allowable limit which can adversely affect the education system. The liberty provided by the government to these universities is said to be more than the needful.

The role of the Liberal Democrat party is widely criticized because the increase in tuition fees was never supported by their manifesto. This also has given a chance to critics of the change in the May 2010 elections and they are now rightly pointing fingers at the ‘change’ slogan. The public had never aspired to what they have got from the change. The raise has also severed as an eye-opener for those who ever dreamed of public empowerment because public anger had failed to make an impact in this case. However, the government has defended the raise with full force and claims it to be a continuation of the change for which people have elected them because it will give a boost to the economy and will evade the further debt on part of the government. 

 The National Health Services (NHS) reform bill is yet another test of the change people have brought about in May 2010 elections. The government has to prove the value of these reforms and the good it has to offer to the masses. However, as yet the split of vision among two coalition partners over the reforms has endangered the coalition itself and the political intellect has yet not been able to devise a policy that can meet the public aspirations on the issue.

The change that May 2010 elections have brought is yet to prove its worth and the chemistry of coalition government has to be tested in the upcoming years. However, the change has not yet changed the public perception about the politicians and their style of governance.