Theresa Villainous is absolutely correct to call for the cost of a third runway in Heathrow to be ploughed into a new high speed rail link between St Pancras, Manchester and Leeds. But Greenpeace are even more correct to say this: “The true test of their commitment will come when, like the Liberal Democrats, this… Continue reading High Speed Rail: Tories and Greenpeace are right
Tag: environment
Three Cheers for Tim Leunig!
Tim Leunig has written an excellent, one page article in the Green Lib Dems‘ Challenge magazine about why Lib Dem support for road user charging is thoroughly wrong headed. Sadly, you can’t read the article online as it is GLD policy not to do so in order to encourage you to join the organisation (for… Continue reading Three Cheers for Tim Leunig!
Who is worse news for Labour? Charles Clarke or Compass?
Gordon Brown has ruled out a handout to help people with winter fuel payments a few days after his office was insisting that he definitely wasn’t. Add those two together and you have the possibility of a windfall tax which will only be used to reduce the PSBR. Since this would almost certainly be total… Continue reading Who is worse news for Labour? Charles Clarke or Compass?