BBC News magazine discusses Liberal Party policy!
There's a brief discussion of the Liberal Party policy of Universal Inheritance on the magazine section of the BBC News website today, including quotations from NEC member Dane Clouston. Okay, the article describes the Liberal Party itself in rather slighting terms, but it is so rare for the BBC to mention the party at all that I can't fire up much indignation about that. The policy discussion seems quite balanced. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7217398.stm The bit about Liberal policy is about 1/2 way down. I'll quote just that section below, but the whole article is interesting and worth reading:
There's a brief discussion of the Liberal Party policy of Universal Inheritance on the magazine section of the BBC News website today, including quotations from NEC member Dane Clouston. Okay, the article describes the Liberal Party itself in rather slighting terms, but it is so rare for the BBC to mention the party at all that I can't fire up much indignation about that. The policy discussion seems quite balanced. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7217398.stm The bit about Liberal policy is about 1/2 way down. I'll quote just that section below, but the whole article is interesting and worth reading:
Dane Clouston has campaigned for three decades to allow everybody to have just such a citizen's inheritance, and has persuaded the Liberal Party, the small rump leftover from the creation of the Lib Dems, to adopt it as policy. "In a capitalist democracy, every UK-born British citizen should have some capital at 25 as well as a vote at 18, and it should be financed by taxes on inheritance. "It's wrong that some start off with billions before they lift a finger and others start off with nothing. I'm all for people having an inheritance, I don't want the tax to be outrageous. I have children, I expect them to receive something but they should be happy to pay a proportion of that."