Tag Archives: daily mail. danny alexander

Newsmoggie

LibLink: Danny Alexander: We ignored siren voices in the Tory party on 40p tax rate to give £100 tax cut for all

By Newsmoggie | Wed 19th March 2014 - 8:31 pm

Screen Shot 2014-03-19 at 19.44.37To write for the Mail once might be considered unfortunate. To do so twice in three days has to be considered careless. Mind you, Lady Bracknell would no doubt have read that paper.

Danny Alexander follows on from Sunday’s article with this piece on how the Liberal Democrats stopped the Tories from confining tax cuts to the rich alone. First, a little differentiation:

We’ve forced it onto the agenda at every Autumn Statement and Budget and by April this year will have delivered a tax cut worth £700 to 25 million working people.

Continue reading »
Posted in LibLink | Also tagged | 15 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • Graham Evans
    Peter Martin is absolutely right. Ordoliberal had a time in the sun in Germany but the debt break and the pursuit of balanced budgets have produced a crumbling ...
  • Rosemary Runswick
    @Peter The "Jenkinsite" title is a bit of a weird holdover from when we were simply a Jenkins appreciation group, but people have been loud and clear so far on ...
  • Jack Meredith
    Fantastic to see you guys doing well, congratulations! I look forward to seeing you go from strength to strength ☺️...
  • Peter Martin
    It's odd to see "ordoliberalism" mentioned with approval (as in the link given in the OP)- especially as the calls for government to adopt a more a Keynesian ap...
  • Peter Davies
    Perhaps the answer to Michael's comment and those of the MPs and councillors William refered to is that you redisribute at a personal or household level. That m...