If you haven't heard of the Lib Dems' new private social networking facility ACT, then you are missing a lot of 'ACTivity'! ALTER now has a Group in ACT, where you can join discussion on topical subjects. We have already recruited new ALTER members this way, in less than a week since creating the Group. So please tell your friends about ALTER in ACT.
The origins of the "Mansion Tax", mentioned in Vince Cable's speech at Bournemouth last month, go back to early 2006, as a policy working group, the Lib Dem Tax Commission (TC), started serious work. Many Lib Dem MPs saw any continuing domestic property tax alongside "Axe The Tax" (i.e. scrapping of Council Tax) as (a) confusing for voters and (b) expensive to achieve.
Our allies in the Labour & Cooperative Movement, the Labour Land Campaign, have achieved a significant victory by securing the support of the Cooperative Party Conference for a General Election Manifesto which includes very clear support for using LVT as an economic instrument.
August 2009 Archives
Open meeting of C4EJ Friday 22 May 09
