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Michael Green

Michael Green

Michael Green lives in Chelmsford.

Posted on Mar 05, 2009 at 05:24pm

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As a pluralist party, we should be comfortable with achieving radical socialist ends through decentralist and liberal means

3:07 pm, Wed 21st Oct 2009
As a pluralist party, we should be comfortable with achieving radical socialist ends through decentralist and liberal means By Michael Green Decentralising power makes us all more powerful as a nation collectively. It increases productivity, efficiency and innovation. A nation of powerful citizens is much more likely to...
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How should Labour explain our financial position and put it right?

11:21 am, Thu 24th Sep 2009
By Michael Green Over the last year we’ve seen how the nation state stupendously failed to regulate a global economy. We’ve also seen that there are still inefficiencies in some...
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Scrapping ID cards and Trident would make a Lib-Lab Pact viable and rescue Britain from a Tory future

5:20 pm, Thu 17th Sep 2009
Scrapping ID cards and Trident would make a Lib-Lab Pact viable and rescue Britain from a Tory future By Michael Green UPDATE: Discussion on this is also taking place at our Facebook group. Join here. All of us progressives recognise any future Conservative government would be a disaster....
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Proposal #3: Increase the Minimum Wage to a Living Wage

4:58 pm, Wed 16th Sep 2009
Proposal #3: Increase the Minimum Wage to a Living Wage By Michael Green A minimum wage of £7.45 per hour, coupled with modest corporation tax cut for small and medium size businesses is economically viable in the UK. It would...
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How can we use progressive taxes to plug the hole in public finances?

2:03 pm, Tue 8th Sep 2009
By Michael Green New Labour is kidding itself if it thinks it can reduce child poverty to below 5% and maintain well funded public services without growing government tax revenue...
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The emotive language of a radical new democratic agenda

7:02 pm, Wed 26th Aug 2009
The emotive language of a radical new democratic agenda By Michael Green Tony Blair was probably the best prime minister we’ve had in terms of his ability to use the language of dispersing power to citizens and, in turn,...
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How do you end child poverty?

1:43 pm, Mon 24th Aug 2009
By Michael Green The Labour government has already made some tremendous efforts to reduce child poverty so far. These include Sure Start, increased child tax credit, working tax credit and...
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Let the people hear the case for a social Europe

3:54 pm, Mon 3rd Aug 2009
Let the people hear the case for a social Europe By Michael Green After the collapse of the neo-liberal model of globalization, where multinational corporations were our masters and not our servants, people are starting to question the economic model...
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Social care can be free of charge

9:53 am, Fri 17th Jul 2009
Social care can be free of charge By Michael Green The recent green paper on fixing the social care crisis laid out 3 possible solutions, all of which were inadequate in different ways. The DIY option of...
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Against Liberal Republicanism

5:36 pm, Thu 11th Jun 2009
By Michael Green Liberal Republicans say they want to put more power to individuals in public services through budgets or vouchers. This would only create fairness if all individuals were...
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