tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post3892385796567621283..comments2024-03-08T15:43:20.236+00:00Comments on Keynesian Liberal: Honesty is the Best PolicyPeter Wrigleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-40588996280222124682012-09-23T17:12:30.483+01:002012-09-23T17:12:30.483+01:00My apologies to the editor of Liberal Democrat New...My apologies to the editor of Liberal Democrat News: my letter has been published in full in this week's issue (21st September, 2012) So the "party hierarchy" are prepared to have these views aired. Very Liberal! And a better time to have them published, as, with luck, delegates to our conference will have received their copies before setting off to Brighton. So the conference bars are probably agog with earnest discussions about the need for the prompt implementation of Keynesian Liberalism. We must hope so.Peter Wrigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-60559093840753325082012-09-17T11:01:05.903+01:002012-09-17T11:01:05.903+01:00You are right that, since the over-hasty cobbling ...You are right that, since the over-hasty cobbling together of the coalition and that much regretted "rose garden love in" we have allowed the Conservatives to frame the debate. I can't agree that we should break the chains, but I strongly urge that we should be much clearer on what our own policies would be if we were not in a minority of 57 to 306. As John Kampfner writes in today's Guardian (17/09/12) "What has been found to work (in coalitions in continental Europe) is when, publicly but politely, one leader says 'We advocated A, they advocated B, but we agreed to settle on C.' All surveys in Europe suggest that the public respects an open airing and settling of differences."Peter Wrigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-66896431041213971172012-09-16T19:20:14.282+01:002012-09-16T19:20:14.282+01:00Excellent analysis. Agree 100% that Lib Dems are a...Excellent analysis. Agree 100% that Lib Dems are allowing the debate to be framed and led by the Conservatives. It's about time we started to break the chains of Coalition and channel the spirit of Keynes more fully.CurmudgeonlyLiberalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-85994703362385561162012-09-16T18:42:28.237+01:002012-09-16T18:42:28.237+01:00Totally agree Pierre. Osborne has no idea or idea...Totally agree Pierre. Osborne has no idea or ideas and the thought of him as a putative prime minister is almost as frightening as the possibility of the Wodehousian Boris. At least Boris read Classics rather than PPE.<br />Pip pip The Bullingdon - I don't think Labour exploit this weakness enough. The Tories are still perpetuating this myth of the mess they inherited as an excuse for the politics of futility.Stuart archernoreply@blogger.com