The fact was the result of an analysis by University College London and revealed in this five minute report for BBC1's Politics Show. The report also examines UCL's recommendation that a second Coalition Agreement is drawn up in the middle of this parliament. ConHome's Tim Montgomerie took part in the discussion.

Comments

[Andrew Smith]

And how many joint policies did not make it into the agreement or have not been implemented, and look like not ever becoming law. How many agreement policies have been reneged on already, such as the change in womens retirement ages.

This is a coalition which came into effect after a FPTP election that was badly handled by Cameron, and in which LibDems lost support.

Let's have another election soon and get rid of both of these useless "leaders".

[Patsy Sergeant]

75% of LibDem promises became Coalition policy but only 60% of Tory promises.

The BBC commentator naturally interpreted that sentence as meaning that LibDems are soo much more effective than Conservatives - well they would wouldn't they!! What the BBC commentator did NOT dream of saying was that just MAYBE that outcome for LibDem policymaking WAS actually assisted by Mr. Cameron's influence on his own senior party members!

[Allan]

Hmm...if the Lib Dems only had 4 major policies...I'm struggling to remember any to be honest...and get 3 'enacted', that is a 'hit rate' of 75%...

.....however if you've 'only' got a hit rate of 60% but have maybe 30 key policies....well....that means far more 'Blue Mob' policies are going to be pushed forward.....

[Andrew Smith]

Can you name any of the "blue mob" policies which are being pushed forward?

[hector]

On the flip side, I would say the 25% of promises that lib dems have not kept (the main one being tuition fees), will have cost them more votes than the 40% the tories have not kept.

[Jonathan Phillips]

The point is this. Cameron will claim the credit for whatever happens to go right, while Clegg will get the blame for everything that goes wrong - the right-wing press will see to that. The facts of the case - who actually had most influence over coalition policy in any particular area - are completely irrelevant.

[Allan]

Hmmm...I'd say a big one is the huge determination to not have a referendum on Europe.

But apart from that the policies of most of them are to my mind at least, once the realities of actually being HMG start to bite, pretty much a 'muchness of much'.