Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Monday, 23 March 2009
Pain Without Gain
Inheritance Tax is already paid almost exclusively by people who vote Tory anyway, most of them resident in safe Tory seats.
Politics is a mix of high ideal and low self interest. Geoffrey Hodgson argued that left wing politics is about ideals and conservative politics was about self interest. The move on Inheritence Tax is basically about shoring up support not about gaining new support.
Politics is a mix of high ideal and low self interest.
ReplyDeleteGeoffrey Hodgson argued that left wing politics is about ideals and conservative politics was about self interest.
The move on Inheritence Tax is basically about shoring up support not about gaining new support.
"Geoffrey Hodgson argued that left wing politics is about ideals and conservative politics was about self interest"
ReplyDeleteNot mutually exclusive, of course.
"The move on Inheritence Tax is basically about shoring up support not about gaining new support"
In other words, it smacks of desperation.