Tag: localism
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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’…
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I’ve added the main fringe meetings I plan to be going to onto flock together and added my personal feed from that website onto my sidebar. If you’re a Lib Dem blogger, why not do the same? Personally, aside from the day job I’ll be busy promoting my chapter on intergenerational equity in Graham Watson/Liberator’s…
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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…
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Michael Lyons has just published his latest report on local government. It makes heartening reading for those of us who are not just in favour of the rhetoric of localism but the substance as well. Read it and champion it before Tony Blair and Gordon Brown catches sight of it and attempt to bury down…
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Final call for Liberal Drinks – 7pm, Silver Cross, Whitehall. Looks like there’ll be a decent crowd (12 confirmed on the website alone), and I know of at least 1 MP coming. So hope to see you there!