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Why vote Liberal Democrat? Book review

If you go to Amazon searching for “Why vote Liberal Democrat?”, edited by Danny Alexander and just published  by Biteback, you may be surprised to find yourself being presented instead with a book of the same title from 1997, written by William Wallace. The new book is misfiled by Amazon under the title “Why vote Lib Dem?” but actually the 1997 volume provides an interesting contrast with the 2010 version.

The 2010 book is one of a series, covering also Labour, Conservatives, SNP, Plaid and the Greens. All the others are single person authored books (with the exception of …

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  • Paul Turnbull
    There seems to a fundamental misunderstanding from the author and a few of the comments on the nature of the UK state pension. The UK state pension is designed ...
  • expats
    Chris, you also neglected to mention that the link to 'earnings' has already been 'deemed unaffordable'.. Almost exactly 5 years ago (Sept 2021)The Tory govern...
  • Jana
    Perhaps insist that an approved ‘black cab style self-driving car’ be mandated for those who wish to enjoy the advantages of modern technological developmen...
  • Ruth Bright
    Victor, Richard, Gary - so proud of you all. Nice to look back on my time as Deputy Leader in Southwark a quarter of a century ago and know that time was not wa...
  • James Hill
    Dear Chris, as others have pointed out, you seem to have missed the fundamental detail of the PM’s proposal as it retains a link to earnings, but instead of a...