With his talk of disrupting the ‘whole way of life’ of Britain’s entire population by the most severe spending cuts for a generation, it’s perfectly clear that David Cameron is softening us up for what the Tories have always been striving for all along, namely the shrinking of the State and the further privatisation and […]
Posts Tagged ‘Coalition’
How does Con-Dem Libertarianism stack up?
May 25th, 2010 by Liz Davies.New Labour’s shameful record on civil liberties could have allowed Nick Clegg and David Cameron to pose as defenders of human rights. The Liberal Democrats and the Tories had joined together to oppose new Labour’s 90-day and then 42-day detention without charge. They had defended the right to trial by jury.
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A Marriage of Convenience?
May 13th, 2010 by Nyta Mann.click for photo credit Conservative leader David Cameron waxed lyrical about coalition and partnership at his joint press conference with Nick Clegg yesterday. But this is strictly a marriage of convenience. Labour + Liberal Democrats could have made very good sense – but those Labour MPs who emerged to decry any form of coalition with […]
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A Nightmare Scenario
May 12th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.I accept what has rapidly become the conventional Labour wisdom: acceptance of defeat and a period of opposition to reflect on the reasons for it is in Labour’s and, if the coalition comes unstuck before too long, the country’s best interest. The alternative was also not a “progressive alliance” but, as Mark Seddon argued at […]
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On Liberal coalition narratives
May 12th, 2010 by Dave Semple.So the Lib-Dems have not only put a Conservative government into office, they’ve gone into coalition. Clegg is to be Deputy Prime Minister and Cable may end up as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. What’s evident is how all the holier-than-thou Lib-Dems are getting to sleep at night, however: blaming Labour for the whole thing. […]
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Spend and Tax – to close the fiscal gap
May 11th, 2010 by Richard Murphy.There’s an issue that all the talk of coalitions, deals and prime ministerial resignations has pushed still further to the sidelines whilst the issue of cuts remains firmly in the limelight. That is the issue of tax. As I have shown, UK tax revenues tailed along behind UK state spending from 2002 to 2008 with […]
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Coalitions – and closed doors
May 10th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.So here we have it, what so many of you are longing for: Small groups of politicians meeting behind closed doors. Day after day. Endless speculation on The News, but no news. Days going by.
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Coalitions – For or Against the Cuts?
May 10th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.“New Labour is dead – discuss”. Well, before the treatises and dissertations are penned on the sudden and final death of New Labour, let us consider this. Labour, despite the albatross of Lord Mandelson’s “Blair plus” manifesto, despite the bizarre reappearances of Tony Blair and in spite of a campaign based on the defeatism of […]
