Yesterday, Health Secretary Andy Burnham wrote an article for the Guardian aiming to set out the clear blue water between Labour and the Conservatives on the National Health Service. In doing so, he inadvertantly demonstrated quite how vapid Labour’s vision for the NHS really is. It was summed up in one sentence:
For Labour, [...]
Tag Archives: localism
Better a localist NHS than a nationalist one
There is nothing random about local control of public services
Both Sunder Katwala and Grant Shapps are quite wrong: not only is local variation a price more than worth paying for local control, but it would end the phenomena of postcode lotteries.
“Postcode lottery” is a cliché, and a peculiarly British one. Why is it, for example, that the only references on Google to “zip [...]
Abolish the Audit Commission, Ofsted and more
The Ideas Factory is a chance for you to pitch your own idea of what should be in the next Liberal Democrat manifesto. The proposal here is not the policy of the Social Liberal Forum. We will however be passing it – and the response it generates – onto the Manifesto Working Group.
The Proposal
Richard Church: [...]
A full-blooded commitment to going local
The Ideas Factory is a chance for you to pitch your own idea of what should be in the next Liberal Democrat manifesto. The proposal here is not the policy of the Social Liberal Forum. We will however be passing it – and the response it generates – onto the Manifesto Working Group.
The Proposal
David Heigham: [...]
