{"id":5396,"date":"2010-05-20T17:16:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T21:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2010-05-20T17:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T21:20:44","slug":"a-coalition-in-the-national-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5396\/a-coalition-in-the-national-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Coalition in the National Interest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s turning into quite a week for the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government in Britain.\u00a0 After Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/8691753.stm\" target=\"_blank\">sterling speech yesterday<\/a> for more freedom and less centralized government, he and Prime Minister David Cameron released at 30+ page document called their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/media\/409088\/pfg_coalition.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">programme for government<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 (pdf)\u00a0 In it, they tackle thirty one issues where they aim to put Clegg\u2019s speech into practice.\u00a0 They cover just about everything.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the duo sees their work as an historic opportunity to govern as \u201ca coalition in the national interest\u201d \u2013 a paradigm they use to combine the Conservatives\u2019 support for free markets with the Liberal Democrats calls for devolving political power away from London towards local governments and individuals.\u00a0 (Or, as our Tenth Amendment puts it \u201cto the States respectively, or to the people.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>So far, the combination is resulting in an agenda that would make Margaret Thatcher smile.\u00a0 From the forward:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We both want a Britain where social mobility is unlocked; where everyone, regardless of background, has the chance to rise as high as their talents and ambition allow them. To pave the way, we have both agreed to sweeping reform of welfare, taxes and, most of all, our schools \u2013 with a breaking open of the state monopoly and extra money following the poorest pupils so that they, at last, get to go to the best schools, not the worst.<\/p>\n<p>We both want a Britain where our political system is looked at with admiration, not anger. We have a shared ambition to clean up Westminster and a determination to oversee a radical redistribution of power away from Westminster and Whitehall to councils, communities and homes across the nation. Wherever possible, we want people to call the shots over the decisions that affect their lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s turning into quite a week for the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government in Britain.\u00a0 After Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg\u2019s sterling speech yesterday for more freedom and less centralized government, he and Prime Minister David Cameron released at 30+ page document called their \u201cprogramme for government.\u201d\u00a0 (pdf)\u00a0 In it, they tackle thirty one issues where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1295,926,102,1294,1303],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-coalition-government","tag-david-cameron","tag-free-market","tag-nick-clegg","tag-prime-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}