This morning Andrew Marr interviewed Malcolm Rifkind & David Steel. Rifkind criticised the idea of us going for Fiscal Autonomy on the grounds that full fiscal autonomy would mean us giving up several billion £s more than we currently raise.
David Steel, former Lib Dem leader replied with the inanity that we could just lower corporation tax!
OK so this doesn't exactly address Rifkind's point of where the money comes from but on a purely personal basis it hit home. My expulsion from the LibDems was for supporting nuclear power & CALLING FOR US TO ACHIEVE IRISH STYLE GROWTH BY CUTTING CORPORATION TAX. This crime was unanimously judged by the Scottish Party executive to be "illiberal & irreconcilablee with membership of the party" & "too right wing" to even be discussed.
It seems like barely a year since then - in fact it is. Clearly if that was the case then Mr Steel, by going on TV to say this, rather than blogging or putting a letter in the papers, has transgressed to a far greater extent. The position of Robert Brown MSP & other members of the executive would not seem to be morally tenable if they do not choose to immediately write to Mr Steel to advise him of his proposed expulsion.
Perhaps they may wish to apolgise & admit my prior use of this idea in the party. Had they, rather than the SNP been willing to adopt it who knows how they would now stand in the polls?
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