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  • The Liberal Democrat post-credit crunch economic policy. A blow by blow account.

    John Harris wonders why the Liberal Democrat party faithful seems so incapable of defining what the Liberal Democrats stand for, unlike the masterful Vince Cable. A clue may come in the fact that the party’s core message on the economy has changed in a significant way on at least eleven separate occasions over the last…

  • The Peopl(ish) Budget

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • If you want some of my pension Vince, you could just ask…

    On Sunday, my gf finally forced me to sit down and fill in my pension form. For various reasons which I won’t go into, it has taken me a long time to do this and take advantage of my (teeny tiny) employer contribution. Imagine my dismay therefore when I discover that no sooner have I…