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Recent Comments

• nigel hunter
  We cannot fund the needs of the people and country if we are a low tax party....
• Jonathan Calder
  Do we want to be a low-tax party? It seems the leadership wants to fight the next election on that basis, but I detect no great enthusiasm for the idea among th...
• Nick Baird
  @Alex @Rees - I was referring to the quoted surveys by VPZ and E-Cigarette Direct, who have a vested interest in selling vapes and are effectively claiming that...
• Rees Southern
  Hi Nick, as Alex points out, ASH is not a vested interest. Nor are the other organisations mentioned in my article, including the Royal College of Physicians, C...
• Matt (Bristol)
  I dont think lib dems should be a low tax or high tax party. I would like them (Or someone else) to be a subsidiarist, consensualist party, whereby levels of ta...