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LibLink: Nick Clegg – Don’t take offence at our coalition. Its aims are liberal

By NewsHound | Sat 15th May 2010 - 8:15 am

Over at Comment is Free, Nick Clegg explains the shared aims of the Lib-Con coalition:

The third runway at Heathrow has been cancelled. ID cards have been scrapped. There will be no more child detention. And reform is now under way to make taxes fair for millions of ordinary people.

These are some of the early achievements of a government that had its first cabinet meeting just two days ago. A new government but, more important, a new kind of government: plural, diverse; a Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition that defies the rules of old politics.

I know the birth of this coalition has

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Posted in LibLink | Also tagged nick clegg | 20 Comments

Poll gives Lib Dem/Con coalition 60% approval

By The Voice | Fri 14th May 2010 - 5:48 pm

A YouGov poll suggests that the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition has the approval of 60% of the public – almost exactly the combined vote of the two parties in last week’s General Election.

Of course, the reality is slightly more complex than this, with a significant minority of Labour voters approving and not every Lib Dem or Conservative voter being in favour.

Here’s what YouGov say:

The British public broadly approve of the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition that, under Tory David Cameron, now forms the Government at Westminster. 60% of the British public say they approve of the Conservative-LibDem coalition, following an unprecedented week

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Posted in Polls | Also tagged opinion polls | 40 Comments

Liberal Democrat policies in Government

By Alex Foster | Wed 12th May 2010 - 5:46 pm

Chris Fox, the Lib Dem Chief Exec, has circulated this helpful summary of which of our policies are included in the agreement. It’s slightly easier to wade through than the full text, which we brought you earlier.

A Fair Start for Children

Introduce a Pupil Premium to give all children a fair start.

Fairer taxes and Economic Reform

A substantial increase in the personal allowance from April 2011 with a longer term policy objective of further increasing the personal allowance to £10,000, making further real terms steps each year towards this objective
Reform of the banking system, ensuring a flow of lending to

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Posted in News | Also tagged agreement, chris fox and summary | 8 Comments

Opinion: A moment of transformation?

By Ed Maxfield | Wed 12th May 2010 - 9:50 am

My family are a difficult bunch to please. This weekend my mother threatened to give up on the Lib Dems if Nick Clegg kept Gordon Brown in power and my sister threatened to move to Greece if he did a deal with the Tories.

Me? I’ve been fighting the Tories all my adult life, but I’ve been working to get Lib Dems into government all that time too. I am immensely proud and excited that Nick Clegg is Deputy Prime Minister (pinch me!) But I also understand the anguish and pain felt by many in the party. After fifty years …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged nick clegg | 55 Comments

Welcome to the new politics – risks and all

By Iain Roberts | Wed 12th May 2010 - 8:27 am

A few months ago we were waiting for David Cameron’s stately procession to 10 Downing Street as leader of yet another majority Conservative government. No point voting Lib Dem, we were told – they had no chance of getting power and putting their policies into practice.

And yet here we are, with a Lib/Con coalition after Labour decided they preferred to be in opposition. Those who voted Lib Dem look like they will get Lib Dem policies put into law. Not all of them, but a surprising number of the important ones.

Is it risky? Hell, yes. …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged liberal democrats | 62 Comments

Coalition ahoy

By Alex Foster | Tue 11th May 2010 - 11:57 pm

News trickling in that the Conservatives have offered the Liberal Democrats a coalition. The Lib Dem parliamentary party and Federal Executives, without whom a coalition cannot be ratified, are currently meeting to consider it.

There’s even talk of an emergency Special Conference this weekend which will mean conference representatives across the country pricking their ears up.

But the rolling news media are considering it a done deal already.

Amongst the headlines are that Nick Clegg will serve as Deputy Prime Minister, Danny Alexander as Secretary of State for Scotland, along with three other Lib Dems in the cabinet and a further …

Posted in General Election | Also tagged Danny Alexander, david cameron, government, nick clegg and vince cable | 98 Comments

5 reasons Nick Clegg should rule out a coalition now

By Stephen Tall | Wed 10th March 2010 - 8:45 am

With most polls showing the next election could result in a hung parliament, there has been various speculation about what the Lib Dem position would be. I think it’s time for Nick Clegg to make an unambiguous statement that the party would not enter a coalition with either Labour or the Tories. Here are my five reasons why Nick should spell this out clearly and simply now …

1. A coalition is a non-starter, so let’s just rule it out now

It’s quite simple: the majority of party members will not for a single moment entertain the idea of a coalition with …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged hung parliament, nick clegg, triple lock and vince cable | 31 Comments

Daily View 2×2: 16 February 2010

By Sara Bedford | Tue 16th February 2010 - 9:35 am

Welcome to today’s numerically challenged Daily View – a bit like a Conservative policy paper.

On this day 51 years ago, Fidel Castro was sworn in as Cuban Prime Minister. Twenty five years ago Clive Ponting resigned from his post at the MoD over the Belgrano affair, despite having been acquitted of breaching the Official Secrets Act a week previously. Just five years ago, the Kyoto Protocol came into force.

Today is of course Shrove Tuesday, so get ready for pancakes tonight. But don’t rely on your opponents giving up campaigning for Lent. I’m off to spend the night setting the budget for the good residents of Three Rivers.

Posted in Daily View | Also tagged clive ponting, duncan stott, fidel castro, kyoto protocol, lynne featherstone, peter black, shrove tuesday, simon hughes, stephen tall and vince cable | Leave a comment

Op-eds

How Liberal Democrats can ride Britain’s youth wave on the pro-EU shift (Rupinder Singh)
Just growth by lowering deadweight losses through tax (Tony Vickers)
Local democracy should not be an excuse to stop building homes (Massimo Ricciuti)
The need for a nationally relevant message (Mark Corner)
Chris Coghlan MP writes…SEND reform must put children with complex needs at the centre; not treat them as an afterthought (Chris Coghlan MP)

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Tag Archives: coalition

LibLink: Nick Clegg – Don’t take offence at our coalition. Its aims are liberal

Poll gives Lib Dem/Con coalition 60% approval