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Opinion: Really Facing the Future

Really Facing the Future has just been published on the Liberator website.

We have written it as an alternative to the Liberal Democrats’ policy development agenda, Facing the Future (PDF): this was published in August 2011, and intended to set out the party’s values, highlight the main challenges and summarise policy development priorities for the remainder of the current parliament – it will be debated at party conference this coming Monday morning.

We believe that Facing the Future fails to face the future. It lacks political imagination, it lacks a coherent analysis of the challenges we face and it …

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