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Opinion: Really Facing the Future

By David Boyle and Simon Titley | Sat 17th September 2011 - 10:35 am

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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