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It’s a think tank reaction special…
Jonathan Calder compared the Taxpayer’s Alliance to a dead duck:
They are obviously very bright over at the TaxPayers’ Alliance. Because they are absolutely right. Animal rescue is not the central job of the fire service.
James Schneider praised a Tory plan for social housing, and noted its origin in a more radical scheme:
Share:Tim Leunig’s original paper for Policy Exchange [...] goes a bit further than the Tory policy. Whilst the Tory policy appears to only allow movement between pre-existing social housing [...] Leunig’s policy gives tenants the right to get their social landlord (be it a council or housing association) to buy another property of equal or less value to the their current home.
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People seem to forget that Tim is a great radical lib dem.
Back in the days of North-and-South-gate, I think Cowley Street was keen not to mention that!