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Fairer Society part 3: Making hard choices to end poverty

By George Potter | Wed 25th June 2014 - 10:15 am

This is the third and final article in my series on why and how Liberal Democrats can claim the social justice agenda which has been abandoned by both Labour and the Conservatives. The first part is here and the second here. I argued we should abandon the notion of helping only the “deserving” poor, which defines our current welfare system, in favour of two new principles to define our approach to welfare:

The role of the welfare state is to guarantee for every person

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged minimum income and welfare | 55 Comments

Fairer Society Part 1: Only the Liberal Democrats are left to stand up for fairness

By George Potter | Sat 21st June 2014 - 9:55 am

On Thursday we saw Ed Miliband deliver his big policy speech on welfare, introducing his ‘youth tax’ in an attempt to be tougher on the Tories than welfare. In the process he proved that Labour, not content with failing to manage the economy properly in their last time in government, have given up on any idea of fairness or social justice for their next time in government.

Interestingly, the policy he announced had been reported on twice already by newspapers, the Sun and the Telegraph, over the course of the past year …