Nick Clegg's about turn on tax and spend has not gone unnoticed.
The LibDems must be desperate. So depressing is their opinion poll performance at the moment that they are even resorting to talking common sense about tax and public spending. Not only is their leader Nick Clegg proposing tax cuts for the lower paid - a policy which any politician of social conscience should recognise as morally and politically compelling - but he even suggested on the Today programme this morning that the Government should be "tightening its belt".says Janet Daley on Telegraph.co.uk
Clegg earlier today launched "Make it happen" telling his audience that society after all was not broken and that being British we won't just give up on each other(Mmmmm.....sure we have got the right party here).
Stressing that he wanted to make Britain a fairer country,the party has pledged to reduce income tax from 20-16% the shortfall made up with green taxes and closing the loopholes.
Where he has tried to differentiate himself from the other parties is in a commitment to spend more on those in society that need it the most.
It is the scrapping of the 50p top tax rate and the extra 1p on tax that has determined this shift.
The question that must be asked though is too fold.Firstly will the Whitehall savings and closing of the loopholes make up the difference.Secondly will Green taxes just impinge on those that he is trying to help
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