Labour was no friend of legal aid — on the Today programme during the election campaign the only cut
in public spending Ed Miliband could identify as one which Labour would make and the public would notice was legal aid.
Not exact matches
In a recent op - ed in the Edmonton Journal, Public Interest Alberta «s Larry Booi called on the new NDP government to institute campaign spending limits, lower contribution limits to $ 1,200 per year, impose much stronger rules on disclosure of contributions and spending and extend the rules on contributions and spending to cover party leadership and constituency contest
In a recent op -
ed in the Edmonton Journal, Public Interest Alberta «s Larry Booi called on the new NDP government to institute campaign spending limits, lower contribution limits to $ 1,200 per year, impose much stronger rules on disclosure of contributions and spending and extend the rules on contributions and spending to cover party leadership and constituency contest
in the Edmonton Journal,
Public Interest Alberta «s Larry Booi called on the new NDP government to institute campaign
spending limits, lower contribution limits to $ 1,200 per year, impose much stronger rules on disclosure of contributions and
spending and extend the rules on contributions and
spending to cover party leadership and constituency contests.
Meanwhile,
Ed Milliband has called for Labour to end its caution over tax, telling the Independent newspaper that the balance between
public spending cuts and tax increases for the rich should be shifted
in favour of
public services.
Under the deficit reduction plans that
Ed Miliband put
in Labour's manifesto last year, the biggest reductions
in public spending would come this year — so much for the «wrong time».
The
spending review is
Ed Miliband's last chance before the election to signal a change
in approach, move the party towards the
public and disrupt the drift towards support of the Tories» economic policies.
As I discuss
in an op -
ed in today's Wall Street Journal, the 5th annual PEPG / Education Next poll shows
public support for more
spending drops precipitously when people learn how much schools are currently
spending.
After all, neither Brill nor Guggenheim (or even other reformers, including those
in the Parent Power movement) hold
ed school degrees, are ensconced
in think tanks, or have
spent a day
in a classroom — even though it doesn't take the possession of either credential to know that American
public education is
in crisis.