Over at Our Kingdom I’ve given my view of the new Lib Dem policy paper on British governance. Broadly I think its great; but then I did have a hand in writing much of it! That isn’t the whole story though – predictably I have an amendment to propose. Watch this space for more details.… Continue reading Great policy Ming – now let’s campaign on it! (UPDATE)
Tag: electoral-reform
Polly Toynbee – where do I start?
Polly Toynbee is waging her war against local democracy once again, insisting that only centralised super-states can be socially progressive and blithely ignoring the fact that all the Scandinavian countries she worships so much are far more decentralised that we can even dream. This week, she has come up with the bizarre hypothesis that ‘localism’… Continue reading Polly Toynbee – where do I start?
Those election results: hmmm…
Notwithstanding the understandable effervescence emanating from the party’s results service, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that, overall, the elections yesterday were not very good for the Lib Dems. With over a hundred councils still to declare (at least according to the BBC), it is hard to conclude anything much… Continue reading Those election results: hmmm…