On the way
My decision to become a Conservative was motivated mainly by the fact that they are clearly nowadays the party of high government spending. Our policy on free university tuition hitherto has been the most visible of these generous commitments, but I expect many more to emerge during this year's party conference.Already today we here that the party is going to restore the link between pensions' and earnings' growth. This is clearly an overdue measure, and to the eternal shame of Blair's government that it hasn't done so earlier. As I have noted many times on these pages, any sensible national pension system requires a large PAYG state element, and that Britain had the most 'affordable' state pension schem in Europe was a source of national shame, not pride.
posted by Matthew @ 10/05/2003 07:41:00 AM
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