Comments on: Clegg: Pick and mix budget fails on all counts http://www.libdemvoice.org/clegg-pick-and-mix-budget-fails-on-all-counts-13881.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous1 http://www.libdemvoice.org/clegg-pick-and-mix-budget-fails-on-all-counts-13881.html#comment-88935 Anonymous1 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:15:07 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=13881#comment-88935 Huw "The role of the opposition parties is to question the government. We can front our own policy in separate speeches." Strange, then, that Clegg's speech extolled various other Lib Dem policies at length. But when it came to the "big choices", it was "asking difficult questions" and "we need a national debate". Huw

“The role of the opposition parties is to question the government. We can front our own policy in separate speeches.”

Strange, then, that Clegg’s speech extolled various other Lib Dem policies at length.

But when it came to the “big choices”, it was “asking difficult questions” and “we need a national debate”.

]]> By: Huw Dawson http://www.libdemvoice.org/clegg-pick-and-mix-budget-fails-on-all-counts-13881.html#comment-88934 Huw Dawson Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:56:16 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=13881#comment-88934 The role of the opposition parties is to question the government. We can front our own policy in separate speeches. The role of the opposition parties is to question the government. We can front our own policy in separate speeches.

]]> By: Anonymous1 http://www.libdemvoice.org/clegg-pick-and-mix-budget-fails-on-all-counts-13881.html#comment-88933 Anonymous1 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:40:57 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=13881#comment-88933 <i>"The Liberal Democrats would do things differently. We would take big choices about what government should and shouldn’t do in the medium term, once growth has kicked in again. Asking difficult questions: Is the 50% target for university students either necessary or affordable? What is our international military role and how much should we spend on it? Are exceedingly generous pension entitlements for well paid public servants fair and affordable? We need a national debate about what the state can and cannot afford in the future ..."</i> Saying "we need a national debate" is hardly the same thing as making "big choices". Shouldn't the party be offering some answers to these questions, rather than just asking them? “The Liberal Democrats would do things differently. We would take big choices about what government should and shouldn’t do in the medium term, once growth has kicked in again.

Asking difficult questions: Is the 50% target for university students either necessary or affordable? What is our international military role and how much should we spend on it? Are exceedingly generous pension entitlements for well paid public servants fair and affordable?

We need a national debate about what the state can and cannot afford in the future …”

Saying “we need a national debate” is hardly the same thing as making “big choices”.

Shouldn’t the party be offering some answers to these questions, rather than just asking them?

]]> By: Miller 2.0 http://www.libdemvoice.org/clegg-pick-and-mix-budget-fails-on-all-counts-13881.html#comment-88926 Miller 2.0 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:48:42 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=13881#comment-88926 I reckon a lot of lib dems will agree more with the 50% decision than with their own policy. I reckon a lot of lib dems will agree more with the 50% decision than with their own policy.

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