Baby Bonds in UK

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Sat Apr 28 13:27:37 PDT 2001



> Quite honestly I suspect that this move at the moment by Labour is more to
> wrong foot the Conservatives, and because someone in the government has
> read the book Max cited. But it just could be part of a longer term
> strategy to cap the Conservatives' appeal strategically. After all New
> Labour wants to appeal to the middle ground without totally losing its
> idealist left wing.
=========== Anthony Atkinson, perhaps? http://www.citizensincome.org


>
> If it got every citizen a capitalist, it could put more teeth into the
> Financial Services Agency, which Brown set up.
>
> While citizens of the USA are unlikely to be living in the equivalent of
> Scandinavia within the next decade, it is not impossible that social
> democracy could move Britain further in that direction.
>
> Chris Burford
>
> London

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Ian



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