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Daily Archives: October 18, 2010

An election more powerful than consensus?

Many people seem to believe that a cross party consensus on a four-year economic plan is a good thing. While agreement  that the budget needs to brought back towards balance is positive, demanding  agreement on the policies necessary to get there is nonsense. What we need is an election and a government that has a…

October 18, 2010 in Government reform, Political culture, Politics, Uncategorized.

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