The Tories have launched their manifesto today with a lot of the material from their 2009 Shift Control document [pdf] making the final cut. It may be worth pointing to Anthony’s detailed crit of this document (below) as a good deal of it is relevant today. Shift Delete Command backspace SysRq F12 Home PgDn Escape [...]
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Sustainable development and the decline of local interest
Sustainable development, and party politics in the UK, are both fond advocates of localism and decentralism. In the case of the UK Conservatives, party leader David Cameron promises no less than the most “radical decentralisation” seen in a century if his party is elected. There is something of an environmental zeitgeist in this language too. One of [...]
Ready to intervene?
Mick Fealty – soon to be an occasional poster here – has picked up on a worrying feature of the direction that David Cameron is adopting in the teeth of the current downturn. What I think Mick is picking up on is the point at which British Conservatism and libertarianism intersect – the general prejudice [...]