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Jeremy Browne writes… Britain can’t afford to avoid radical change
March 22, 2011 10:29 AM
• [Mar 22] Jeremy Browne* writes: 'ONE of the things the RSPB are calling on you today to do is to not cut funding for nature conservation. Can you promise that despite the 30% cuts to your department, you won't cut nature conservation costs?'
In a typical week earlier this month, the Radio 4 Today programme, having set itself against police reforms the previous day, had just found yet another deficit denial frontier. And it was only Wednesday. Labour official spokespeople are the same . .
Britain really cannot afford not to undertake radical change. If we carry on with a ruinous budget deficit and unreformed public services, and if we duck every opportunity to improve efficiency and reduce waste, and if we avoid asking ourselves any tough questions about raising education standards and promoting enterprise, Britain will be left behind.
Anyone who shares my ambitions for a more prosperous, just, liberal and socially mobile society, with the necessary resources to support strong public services and improving standards of living, has a clear responsibility to prevent that from happening. It is not the Government's bold and necessary programme that is the threat to Britain's future; it is the opposition to it that represents the real high risk option.
* MP for Taunton Deane and Minister of State (South East Asia/Far East, Caribbean, Central/South America, Australasia and Pacific), Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Jeremy Browne writes… Britain can't afford to avoid radical change [Lib Dem Voice Mar 22]
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