Comments on: A lesson in the sophisticated research that goes into the drafting of Liberal Democrat policy http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/a-lesson-in-the-sophisticated-research-that-goes-into-the-drafting-of-liberal-democrat-policy/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:50:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Quietzapple http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/a-lesson-in-the-sophisticated-research-that-goes-into-the-drafting-of-liberal-democrat-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-1663 Quietzapple Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:35:59 +0000 http://www.lordtobyharris.org.uk/?p=938#comment-1663 It is all political positioning, and the postures are varied according to the mood struck by those who are expected to sell them. £1m, £2m - its all just trivial house price stuff, who knows what such houses are now worth? Clegg claims people like the idea, so however it fetches up in the Lib Dem oven, it will be one of their defining policies, rapidly abandoned should they have any influence after the GE, when civil servants smirk and offer to look into it a little further. . . When Labour wins The Grand Mansion Tax will live on as the Liberals' land tax did . . . It is all political positioning, and the postures are varied according to the mood struck by those who are expected to sell them.

£1m, £2m – its all just trivial house price stuff, who knows what such houses are now worth?

Clegg claims people like the idea, so however it fetches up in the Lib Dem oven, it will be one of their defining policies, rapidly abandoned should they have any influence after the GE, when civil servants smirk and offer to look into it a little further. . .

When Labour wins The Grand Mansion Tax will live on as the Liberals’ land tax did . . .

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