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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bride2be13/09/08" data-source="post: 3264087" data-attributes="member: 142670">I can't agree with this bit (the bit I bolded.)  They pay lip service to the idea of small government, but at heart they are still the centralisers that the tories always have been.  They don't really trust local government, and prefer to let quangos run things than locally elected representatives.  The point about low tax also needs to be qualified.  Sure, they like to lower income tax when they can, but previous cuts were paid for by massively hiking up direct taxes such as VAT.  Basically, they tax the poor harder in order to cut taxes for the better off.</blockquote>