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"Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."
(Kenneth Boulding)




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(Raymond Chandler)





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Sunday 15 August 2010

100 days and there's worse to come

It's 100 days since the Lib Dems got into bed with the Tories and inflicted a government that seems to take such pleasure out of cutting the public sector and anciliary agencies.

The Guardian focussed on proposed cuts to conservation and environmental projects. After all the hot air of being Britain's most green government, it's come to this.

That organisations such as the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England and the Ramblers' Association have to campaign against the government is an indication of where we are at:

The scope of the proposed is best summarised in the Guardian article below:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/13/plan-sell-nature-reserves-austerity-countryside

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