A whiff of insurrection in the air
Nick Clegg has written a piece in the Daily Telegraph today, giving his opinions on the current problems for Labour, the Conservative revival, and certain of our specific policies.
“The fuel protests hammer home a clear message. After the 10p tax rebellion, the local elections, and the Crewe by-election, no one can doubt the mood of the country any more. There is insurrection in the air. The British people are ready for change and they don’t believe Labour can deliver it.
“So the next big question is: what kind of change do people want? And which opposition party can make it happen?
“The Conservatives have painted an image of a brave new world, where the sun shines and David Cameron charms the birds out of the trees. The Cameroons have started to believe their own hype: insisting on their right to enter Number 10 without working out what they’d do once the door closed behind them.
“Their strategy is simple enough: why bother choosing policies when the Government is shooting itself in the foot? Cameron’s speech on tax last week was a case in point: he made a virtue of the fact that he will make no further specific commitments on public spending or tax. They are elevating policy evasion to an art form.”
Nick then goes on to talk about the specific Liberal Democrat policy commitments, as you can read in the full piece. Unfortunately my nifty “link” creator seems to have vanished, but click on this lenghty address and you will be magically transported to the article by a machine clearly more capable than this one:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/28/do2802.xml
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