I’ve just trawled through Nick Clegg’s speech on localism to the LGA today. A few thoughts: 1. He lets the Tories off too easily (unintentionally I’m sure). He is of course perfectly right to give them a hard time for refusing to even contemplate devolving spending, but the truth is it’s far, far worse than… Continue reading Clegg and localism: early thoughts
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Seumus Milne: why let the facts get in the way of a good argument?
Seaumus Milne is one of my least favourite columnists, to the extent that I rarely bother reading more than the byline of his articles. I bit this week though, although I needn’t have bothered. His article “A mania for tax cuts at any cost defies public opinion” gets the current political situation pretty much ass-backwards.… Continue reading Seumus Milne: why let the facts get in the way of a good argument?
Liberalism and technocracy don’t mix
Oh dear. The cheerleaders for road user charging in the Lib Dems have decided to step up a gear. We will, no doubt, have another row about this at party conference in the autumn and Clegg will no doubt turn it into a vote of confidence issue and win (people who diss Labour MPs for… Continue reading Liberalism and technocracy don’t mix