We're All In This Together .....

[visualnickmos]

As for the 'major party' thing - it does get pretty annoying when the BBC and others are prepared to elevate UKIP to that status while still ignoring the Greens entirely.

I couldn't agree more.

[ahinton]

As for the 'major party' thing - it does get pretty annoying when the BBC and others are prepared to elevate UKIP to that status while still ignoring the Greens entirely.

Indeed, although I suspect that the term "major party" may soon be seen to have had its day altogether...

[Richard Barrett]

Meanwhile, I read in yesterday's Observer just how big our ambitions are...

I think there might be something in this. The stated policies of the Greens are certainly more in tune with what most people actually want than those of any of the other parties. But there's so much (deliberately) inbuilt inertia in the system. Also Joschka Fischer as German foreign minister in a Green-SPD coalition committed some Clegg-like reversals of party policy, like committing the German military to active combat service for the first time since the Second World War, so Greens do have some form in not living up to their principles.

[jean]

Don't remind me.

At least we do have proper worked-out policies, which UKIP do not.

(That of course will make it all the easier for them to renege on their policies, supposing they do come to power...and the electorate won't be able to say it wasn't warned.)

[amateur51]

You can find all the Green party's policies here.

If you have any influence on such documents jean, could you suggest that they need an executive summary/list of headline policies to stick before this detailed list please? it's all good stuff but I lost the will to live.

[ahinton]

Don't remind me.

At least we do have proper worked-out policies, which UKIP do not.

(That of course will make it all the easier for them to renege on their policies, supposing they do come to power...and the electorate won't be able to say it wasn't warned.)

Which of the two do you mean by "them"? Logic suggests that it is possible for a party to renege on policies only if it has policies in the first place and that, if UKIP has none or very few, it might be thought to have less on which to renege than others.

[amateur51]

Don't remind me.

At least we do have proper worked-out policies, which UKIP do not.

(That of course will make it all the easier for them to renege on their policies, supposing they do come to power...and the electorate won't be able to say it wasn't warned.)

What a chilling prospect

[visualnickmos]

What a chilling prospect

Indeed.

[visualnickmos]

If you have any influence on such documents jean, could you suggest that they need an executive summary/list of headline policies to stick before this detailed list please? it's all good stuff but I lost the will to live.

I second this request.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

interesting document about elitism in the UK by Milburn's unit

and this is their report in summary on poverty and inequality

apologies ahinton i have again imitated a reference you make to the excellent graun piece about the Tory economics narrative and why it is false ...

[ahinton]

interesting document about elitism in the UK by Milburn's unit

and this is their report in summary on poverty and inequality

apologies ahinton i have again imitated a reference you make to the excellent graun piece about the Tory economics narrative and why it is false ...

Absolutely no need to apologise! Nothing for which to do so!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

this translates quite well into UK politics as an antidote to the Toff Boy Narrative

also

[teamsaint]

gosh, documents shredded by mistake.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/11204405/MPs-to-escape-expenses-investigations-after-paperwork-destroyed-by-Parliament.html

just unlucky I suppose.

[Serial_Apologist]

gosh, documents shredded by mistake.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/11204405/MPs-to-escape-expenses-investigations-after-paperwork-destroyed-by-Parliament.html

just unlucky I suppose.

More like a nod and a wink, I would think.

[teamsaint]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/51990d4c-7f92-11e4-b4f5-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3NMz8zqa4

interesting take on various economic matters.

the answer would seem to be to give more spending power for those with modest means, instead of QE to shore up banks balance sheets and asset prices. Now who would have thought.......