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 Lib Dems don’t need a blogging strategy. They need a Lembit strategy
Alex Singleton has written a wonderfully charmless little attack post on about the state of Lib Dem blogosphere (it is always nice to find an article like this has been written by someone I have already dismissed as an idiot). Leaving aside the usual crap about the Lib Dems not standing for anything (bizarrely, he… Continue reading The Lib Dems don’t need a blogging strategy. They need a Lembit strategy
Why do faith school supporters want them to be so awful?
I have to admit to coming out of the Lib Dem debate on 5-19 education feeling somewhat perplexed. After a complicated series of four amendments wrangling over the same bunch of lines, what the party has come up with seemed to be little more than a state commissioned figleaf scheme. Let me explain. The motion… Continue reading Why do faith school supporters want them to be so awful?