Comments on: If the cap fits… http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/09/if-the-cap-fits/ "crass, boorish and more a bruiser than blogger" - Alex Wilcock Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:14:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Gareth http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/09/if-the-cap-fits/#comment-976 Gareth Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:00:57 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/09/if-the-cap-fits/#comment-976 Aw, he's a pussycat really! :-) Excellent articles Alex - hitting several nails on the head. On environmental tax I think you may've got Chris slightly wrong. I'll claim some credit for bringing in the notion to the Tax Commission of green taxes not being revenue-neutral, but Chris has picked up this theme and run with it. It's a big shift (and of course some effective green taxes would raise rapidly-decreasing amounts - if they work!) but a hugely effective one and just the sort of thing a Lib Dem leader needs to get airtime. I think he and I don't want to prejudge the outcome of the Commission too much - suffice to say that if you think James a bruiser, then watch the encounters I'm about to have with Cable, Laws, Marshall et al! Aw, he’s a pussycat really! :-)

Excellent articles Alex - hitting several nails on the head.

On environmental tax I think you may’ve got Chris slightly wrong. I’ll claim some credit for bringing in the notion to the Tax Commission of green taxes not being revenue-neutral, but Chris has picked up this theme and run with it. It’s a big shift (and of course some effective green taxes would raise rapidly-decreasing amounts - if they work!) but a hugely effective one and just the sort of thing a Lib Dem leader needs to get airtime. I think he and I don’t want to prejudge the outcome of the Commission too much - suffice to say that if you think James a bruiser, then watch the encounters I’m about to have with Cable, Laws, Marshall et al!

]]> By: Richard Gadsden http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/09/if-the-cap-fits/#comment-971 Richard Gadsden Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:15:45 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/09/if-the-cap-fits/#comment-971 And there I was thinking that was a subliminal reference to James's appearance! And there I was thinking that was a subliminal reference to James’s appearance!

]]> By: Alex Wilcock http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/09/if-the-cap-fits/#comment-970 Alex Wilcock Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:31:52 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2006/02/09/if-the-cap-fits/#comment-970 Oh, it's just a love-in, isn't it? Thanks for the plug - and of course I knew you'd be much more tickled by those words than the nice ones about you that I also posted. That's why I put them in ;-) I'm trying to think of a more genteel word than 'bruiser', myself. After all, I use a great many reasonably polite words to be very rude about people, rather than a few very rude ones... Oh, it’s just a love-in, isn’t it?

Thanks for the plug - and of course I knew you’d be much more tickled by those words than the nice ones about you that I also posted. That’s why I put them in ;-)

I’m trying to think of a more genteel word than ‘bruiser’, myself. After all, I use a great many reasonably polite words to be very rude about people, rather than a few very rude ones…

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