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• in Politics
  "Don’t Cry For Me, Great Britain"
  As Gordon Brown steps down, Liberal Democrats join the Conservatives to form UK's government.
  by amohit / on May 11, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “liberal democrats”

 

• Vince Cable: coalition partners need disengagement before general election

  
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  Business secretary says breakup before 2015 would allow Liberal Democrats and Tories to establish separate identities Vince Cable, the business secretary, has raised the spectre of the coalition breaking up early to give the two parties time to establish "separate identities" before the general election in 2015. ...
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• Nick Clegg denounces free vote on equal marriage

  
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  In what is the most visible sign of the split between Lib Dems and the Tories on the issue of equal marriage, the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has said that the issue cannot be left to individual conscience. Reacting to the recent announcement by Commons Leader, Sir George Young, that this was a ‘matter of ...
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• Letters: The beneficiaries of privilege will never tackle social mobility

  
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  Our political elites find the issue of social mobility to be both irresistible and intractable ( Suzanne Moore , G2, 24 May). Irresistible because even rightwing politicians cannot ignore the fact that our unfair education system, through which parental wealth has a far more significant impact on life chances than ...
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• Yes, special needs children deserve more, and thats what we will give them | Sarah Teather

  
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  John Harris says children with special educational needs will lose out in a rush to reform. Far from it – theyll get a better deal John Harris writes of the fight he had to simply get the basic support for his autistic child ( Special needs kids deserve better than a rush to reform , 21 May). His experience is a ...
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• Boris Johnson: his job creation pledge is meaningless

  
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  A new Liberal Democrat London assembly member has exposed the hollowness of the Tory mayors pledge on employment in the housing sector Liberal Democrat newcomer Stephen Knight scored a good hit on Boris Johnson during the first City Hall of his second term on Wednesday. He was also given his first taste of the way ...
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• Nick Clegg signals new phase as victory for French left adds strain to coalition

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Nick Clegg signals new phase as victory for French left adds strain to coalition Calls for ‘massive capital investment’ betrays nervousness that François Hollande’s election win could leave UK isolatedNick Clegg’s call for “massive capital investment”, alongside an ...
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• Nick Clegg signals new phase as victory for French left adds strain to coalition

  
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  Calls for massive capital investment betrays nervousness that François Hollandes election win could leave UK isolated Nick Cleggs call for "massive capital investment", alongside an admission that the governments own gloomy rhetoric may have damaged the recovery, looks at first glance like the belated adoption of ...
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• Beecroft proposals: how Tory donors radical blueprint split the government

  
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  Insiders suggest Camerons team initially keen on some proposals despite opposition from ministers including Cable It started with a call to Vince Cables business department from two of the governments most influential forces – the prime ministers policy guru, Steve Hilton, and the Tory cabinet office fixer, Oliver ...
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• Hester Smallbone obituary

  
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  My mother, Hester Smallbone, who has died aged 87, was a vigorous campaigner for equality and fairness and a strong advocate of liberal values. In the 1950s, after the Suez crisis and the crushing of the Hungarian uprising, she, along with my father, Derek, became active in the Liberal party. Hester was a councillor ...
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• Clegg unveils massive growth push

  
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  Deputy prime minister talks of plans for state-backed infrastructure investment, but says it is no plan B Nick Clegg has signalled that the coalition has plans for a "massive" increase in state-backed infrastructure investment but denied that the fresh emphasis on growth represented a "plan B". The deputy prime ...
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• Vince Cable accused of being a socialist by Tory donor

  
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  Adrian Beecroft, a venture capitalist, calls business secretary a socialist who found a home in the Lib Dems Vince Cable is a "socialist" who has blocked action to liberalise employment laws that could give a £50bn boost to the economy, according to a Tory donor who wrote a controversial report on cutting red tape. ...
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• Nick Clegg using old-style communist tactics, says public school head

  
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  Master of the private Magdalen College School in Oxford hits out at deputy prime ministers drive to improve social mobility Nick Clegg has been accused by a public school head of adopting "old-style communist" tactics in his drive to improve social mobility. Tim Hands, master of the private Magdalen College School ...
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• Letters: The painful truth about cheap alcohol

  
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  I was surprised to see the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) quoted in a comment piece, ( Minimum alcohol pricing? Blame those vomiting girls , 16 May), as noting "no discernible relationship between (alcohol) affordability and harm". This statement, taken in isolation from the report Trends in the affordability of ...
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• Legal aid cuts: if barristers dont defend justice for all, who will? | Michael Mansfield

  
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  A pillar of postwar society has been shattered by the legal aid cuts: thats why a strike is now on the cards Just imagine the home secretary had stood up in front of the Police Federation last week and announced not just 20% in budget cuts but 40%. Thats the scale of cuts being wrought on legal aid . Never mind no ...
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• Nick Clegg rails against British class snobbery

  
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  We need an open society, in which people choose their place, says Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister Class snobbery is holding Britain back by creating a society divided between those born with a sense of entitlement to succeed and others who are "permanently excluded", the deputy prime minister has warned. Nick ...
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• NHS reforms risk health service meltdown, says BMA chief

  
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  BMA conference hears misguided and odious reforms will prompt GPs to retire early, risking shortage of family doctors The NHS is heading towards "operational and financial meltdown" due to a financial squeeze, misguided government policies and rising demand from patients, the leader of the UKs 44,000 GPs has warned. ...
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• No fault dismissal plans look buried as Nick Clegg joins critics

  
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  Deputy prime minister says there is no evidence that allowing staff to be fired at will would be a good way of creating jobs Nick Clegg has made a significant intervention in the row over proposals for "no fault dismissal", which are awaiting the results of a government consultation. Speaking on Tuesday at a ...
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• Vince Cable signals demise of Tory plan to make sacking workers easier

  
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  Business secretary attacks Conservative party donor Adrian Beecrofts employment reform plan Vince Cable all but confirmed that controversial proposals to allow employers to fire workers at will are to be ditched by the government. As Tory sources confirmed that David Cameron was preparing to shelve the plans, Cable ...
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• Vince Cable does David Cameron a favour

  
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  From this mornings Independent : Cable forces Tory U-turn on workers rights  Moves to give companies sweeping powers to dismiss under-performing employees are set to be abandoned by David Cameron following a bitter Coalition split over the issue.  The Prime Minister risks a new row with the Conservative right ...
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• Liberal Democrats insist on police accreditation for Conference representatives

  
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  If I go Liberal Democrat Conference these days it is to help out with the party newspaper rather than as a voting representative. So in a way the announcement that the Lib Dems are to continue to insist on police accreditation of representatives does not affect me. But it has still saddened me. It appears we now ...
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