The Observer has been given a sneaky-peak of the Lib Dem’s Taxation Commission’s current thinking and it sounds good. 2p off the basic rate of income tax, paid for by increases in environmental taxation and “tougher tax rules for the wealthy”. By the latter, I’m taking it to mean, at least in part, to some… Continue reading Taxation Okey-Kokey
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Chris Davies: a Letter to Lib Dem News
LDN didn’t print my letter last week, but the letters they did publish went some way to redress the “Davies love fest” of the week before. For the record though, I thought I’d publish what I wrote here: Since you published Chris Davies’ self-righteous non-apology last week and apparently received many other letters supporting him,… Continue reading Chris Davies: a Letter to Lib Dem News
The People’s Petition
Today is clearly a day for me spotting online petitions. This one has been signed by Tony Blair and has provoked the following response from the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection: “This petition is being run by an extremist group of vested interests representing a very narrow area of medical research. “They want… Continue reading The People’s Petition