« The Liberal Democrat Voice Awards: Your chance to choose (2): Best photograph of a Liberal Democrat Parliamentarian

Subscribe

1. Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky
2. Like us on Facebook
3. Subscribe to our feed
4. Sign-up for our daily email digest

Most Read

1. We need a tax rise to fund additional defence spending 
2. Vince Cable writes...Labour and Fiscal Rules
3. Separation of Powers and Civil Liberties in the UK are now at breaking point
4. ALDC's By Election Report 11.06.26
5. Lib Dems in Birthday Honours list

Search

Op-eds

• aring doesn’t STOP at 67- so why should Carer’s Support Payment or Carer’s Allowance (Amanda Clark)
• WATCH: Charles Kennedy Memorial Lecture (The Voice)
• J.M. Keynes “Anything we can actually do, we can afford.” (David Moon)
• Mathew on Monday: Banning Under-16s from Social Media is the Wrong Answer (Mathew Hulbert)
• Spread it out: the liberal case for a wealth tax (Tom Reeve)

• Away day
• The Keir Starmer we never got
• Indecision costing the taxpayers millions
• Back on the campaign trail
• 1963: London's summer of the Hoverbus
• High Fell by-election leaflet watch 3: the proof is in the reading
• Violent Bonham Carter features on Fake or Fortune?
• The Joy of Six 1533

Recent Comments

• Jana
  Keynes was very clear that government intervention was required, using monetary or fiscal policy, if Aggregate Demand was less than Aggregate Supply. Do we b...
• Abrial Jerram
  Peter Martin I don't see that MMT here isn't telling us anything that we didn't know already, borrowing/creating money and investing it very well in a dynamic w...
• Abrial Jerram
  @Tanya Park I think the difference here is I don't see the second purpose as necessary, as long as we have sorted out the problem of deprivation and we have pro...
• Tanya Park
  @Abrial, I'd say both motives are valid and work together rather than one displacing the other. Taxing extreme wealth to fund a sufficient floor for everyone is...
• Peter Martin
  A couple of comments: "… the government spends before it taxes. It does not tax and spend....." This is a comment beloved of the MMT fraterni...