Stop giving the rich money make it the poor, and then dam well find jobs for people, and stop lying through your teeth(Labour) about jobs locally.

I have been disabled now for eighteen years lost my legs, and I’ve spent years trying to find a job once they see the wheelchair they run a mile.

But before we do anything we have to get rid of Brown simple really

I’m interested in having a discussion about LVT and its role in poverty reduction (like any good leftie, I’ve never seen a new tax I didn’t like).

It’s a bit cheeky to hijack Antonia’s blog which was on something completely different, so I’ll put something on my blog and you and others can continue there. I’ve looked at the Labour Land Campaign’s website - is there anything else you would particularly recommend?

Also, do you realise how silly you sound when saying “and could have achieved it a hundred years ago if the sort of protectionist redistributive socialism had not taken hold in the second third of the twentieth century.”

Please explain how something taking place 100 years ago can be dependent on something happening 60-70 years later, without invoking Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

I also find it incredible that you advocate leaving a party you’ve just stood in an election for. I imagine Oxford Lib Dems won’t be very happy with that kind of disloyalty.

That’s good enough for me, especially as a loser!

You’ll note also that I wrote that “*I* want to eradicate poverty, period, and have the advantage of knowing how it can be done”. I did not say that I had even persuaded the Lib Dems as a whole to accept that solution, and, as you will realize perhaps from my own latest blog post, if I and colleagues do not achieve that first step relatively soon I suspect I for one am likely to be on the lookout for some other fertile ground on which to sow that seed.

Of course, I also keep in touch with the Labour Land Campaign and Dave Wetzel in particular. I do believe that John McDonnell as well as a number of folk who call themselves “left libertarians” in your party have clicked, but as with the Lib Dems it is a very small though committed minority.

I rather suspect we should all go off together and found a specifically Georgist, or mutualist perhaps, party that can get out from under the petticoats of these tired old parties.

Nonetheless, I don’t recognize your characterization of the “Freedom from poverty” policy paper. Its first sentence states its aim of eradicating child p[overty by 2020, and has policies throughout intended to do just that - though personally as I say, they, like Labour, largely still miss the “:root causes” of all poverty.

If you are not already a member, mighht I suggest you also join the LLC and find out more if you need to. Dave Wetzel is a particularly good advocate and explains it better than anyone I know.

And if you think my party are lacking in ambition, go and ask Nick Clegg why his lily-livered “Freedom From Poverty” policy paper passed at your conference last year didn’t even contain policies to halve child poverty by 2010, let alone abolish it by 2020.

Besides, what’s all this about being the only party committed to it. Clegg has made child poverty and opportunity a central theme of his platform with things like topping up school funding for the poorest households and so on.