More grist to the School Voucher debate mill: The number of surplus school places in England has risen to 758,000 – the highest level since 1998. This is the equivalent of more than 2,000 average-sized primary and 250 secondary schools lying empty. Later on it states that 12% of Primary School places and 7% of… Continue reading Surplus School Places
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Connecting with Clegg
I attended a speech by Nick Clegg in the Commons this evening to a nascent group of thrusting young politicos. Mostly I tended to agree with him: the party is to focussed on the minutiae of policy and not enough on how it presents itself; the party does have to develop distinctive ‘surprising’ positions on… Continue reading Connecting with Clegg
The first nail in the coffin of Local Income Tax?
I’ve been very good this past month and have managed to keep schtum about the Liberal Democrat Youth and Students’ decision to reject local income tax in preference to land value taxation until after the elections were out of the way. Now I see that the entire motion is up on the ALTER website, I… Continue reading The first nail in the coffin of Local Income Tax?