Day: 12 September 2012

Nick Clegg found himself in hot water for using the same B word that gave Gordon Brown trouble in 2010. The excuse was that it was an early draft of a speech which should not have been released. Oh, of course! It is not surprising our politicians have a reputation for not being honest with […]

It may seem odd, but the idea of full employment has so disappeared from the political vocabulary that today the phrase is never heard. Yet in the post war period no political party could expect to win an election without full employment as a declared policy objective. What happened? Full employment was generally achieved  until […]