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20 September 2007

Zac, are you serious?

On 13 September, http://www.newstatesman.com/200709170001">Sian gave her reaction to th

By Sian Berry

Zac, are you serious? Of course I had read the Quality of Life group’s report before I commented. In my piece I quote directly from it, and the main findings had been extensively leaked by your team for weeks beforehand.

I don’t want to become your sworn enemy. We both have scarier opponents to face, so I won’t deny that the discursive parts of the report are an excellent read. But it’s in drafting actual policies that the crunch comes, and upon careful reading of the policies you propose, the report did fall well short of expectations. It was, in other words, disappointing.

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