Archive for iain sharpe
A provocative question about Europe
Over on his blog Iain Sharpe has wondered about the European views of Liberal Democrat members: Are the Lib Dems really pro-European?… Lib Dem attitudes towards Europe reminds me of G.K. Chesterton’s The man who was Thursday. In this novel, the members of an anarchist cell are one-by-one revealed to be undercover policemen. In a similar way, [...]
The ideological background to coalition
Richard Grayson (former head of policy for the party and one of the leading lights behind the Social Liberal Forum) has written a thoughtful pamphlet for Compass about the different strains of thought within the Liberal Democrats and what they mean for coalition government. The subtlety of some of Richard’s views mean you have to [...]
