Vince Cable has been dropping heavy hints about raising taxation over the last few days, so it is not a tremendous surprise to see him and Clegg calling for a tax on the value of properties above £1m. I will blog in more detail later, but initial responses? Firstly, it is regrettable that this is… Continue reading The Peopl(ish) Budget
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The Littlewood Effect… twelve months later
Mark Littlewood has articles on Liberal Vision and The Telegraph reminding us of his pamphlet The Cameron Effect last year. That’s fair enough. It’s equally fair enough for me to point you in the direction of my rebuttal of that pamphlet. What has changed in the previous twelve months? Mark is right to say that… Continue reading The Littlewood Effect… twelve months later
Marx, Marquises and Marquand
David Marquand is offering the Liberal Democrats some advice, graciously for free, over on Our Kingdom. First of all he denounces us for having “more unelected legislators than elected ones” and concludes that this proves that we “can’t be taken seriously as an agent of democratic change.” Unbeknownst to anyone else until now, this is… Continue reading Marx, Marquises and Marquand