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Today, on the Guardian’s Comment Is Free blog, Lib Dem blogger James Graham wonders why the party hasn’t benefited in the polls from Vince Cable’s widely acknowledged mastery of the current economic situation. Read it in full, but here’s the conclusion:
If the party is serious about targeting Labour seats at the next election, it really needs to start saying a lot more about social justice. Clegg made this a major theme of his leadership campaign, with his talk about the pupil premium and postcode health inequalities, but seems to have gone quiet on it recently. With recession now all but inevitable, it is time he started dusting off those speech notes once again.
1909 is the centenary of Lloyd George’s People’s Budget. A people’s budget should be Nick Clegg and Vince Cable’s theme for 2009 as well.
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