Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

Is green the new blue?

Rod Liddle says the Conservatives would be more successful if they were keener on conserving

issue 03 May 2003

Phew! Made it! Just in time, mind. And not without a rather costly rearrangement of the flights back from the Far East, I might add. And a holiday cut short as a result of a lamentable slip of the memory. But all worth it, in the end. Like you, I suspect, I couldn’t have lived with myself if I’d missed the chance to vote in this week’s crucial local government elections.

As with most people, rarely a day goes by without my pondering what, exactly, is the best formula for calculating the amount which should be raised through rates, or the council charge, or council tax, for provision of our local services. Is my particular district eligible for a Rate Support Grant? Do they still have the Rate Support Grant? What, exactly, was the Rate Support Grant in the first place?

And then there’s the Issues. In my book, one can never have enough lesbian outreach workers.

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