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Mary Reid

Job shares for MPs?

By Mary Reid | Tue 19th February 2013 - 2:46 pm

reformIt seems that journalists in the national media now make time to read Liberal Democrat policy consultation papers, even before they are discussed at Conference.

Following the Mail’s rant about the so-called ’jewelry tax‘ (from the Tax Policy consultation paper), we now have a more reasoned appraisal by the Guardian of one of the proposals in the consultation paper on Political and Constitutional Reform.

This major consultation is very wide ranging, and begins thus:

Our recent policy on constitutional and political reform has tended to focus on altering the democratic structures of the United Kingdom. We have sought pluralism in our electoral system, strength and legitimacy in our Parliament, and radical decentralisation of power to national, regional and local institutions.

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    Your leader is rubbish, and I hope you guys keep him :D
  • User AvatarHelen Tedcastle 22nd May - 10:29pm
    Matthew Huntbach " One of the arguments, for example, which I think would have been common amongst gay people had this policy been proposed some...
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    What is going on with the conservative party? Will it even survive till 2015, let alone the coalition?
  • User AvatarPeter Hayes 22nd May - 9:29pm
    A good source of replies to UK press lies is http://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/blog/index_en.htm Even the Sun prints their replies sometimes!
  • User AvatarAndrewR 22nd May - 9:29pm
    @Jedi You might at least read it through to the end yourself. You've duplicated the second last para just as you have done every other...