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Local Government Adviser and Founder of Social Policy Forum at Academy of Ideas

Archives for December 2013

I don’t like the bedroom tax either, but …

December 6, 2013 by dclements Leave a Comment

There’s not much to like about the bedroom tax. Ed Miliband, ever-desperate to engineer a connection with a bored and far-from-convinced electorate, will not only freeze energy prices but has promised that a future Labour government will abolish the hated bedroom tax too. It has already had a terrible impact on what welfare reform’s paternalist […]

Filed Under: Disability, Welfare Tagged With: bedroom tax

We can cope without the state

December 2, 2013 by dclements Leave a Comment

The following is an edited version of a speech given by David Clements as part of ‘Cuts, cuts, cuts: what, where and why?’, a debate at the recent Battle of Ideas festival. I’m not a big fan of ‘the cuts’. They may be necessary, given the parlous condition of government finances, but they are hardly going […]

Filed Under: Public services, Welfare Tagged With: cuts

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